OpenAI
AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Startups
We captured this posting once, on 2026-06-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- OpenAI
- Location
- San Francisco
- Seniority
- Leadership
- Experience asked for
- Not stated
- Pay band
- $251K – $335K
- Team
- Go To Market
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-05-19 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-06-05 — when we saved this copy
Found via OpenAI AI Deployment family (one-off pull).
From the posting
About the Team The AI Deployment Engineering team partners closely with customers to help them move from experimentation to production with OpenAI’s technologies. We act as trusted technical advisors, working across customer strategy, architecture, deployment, and adoption to help organizations realize meaningful impact from frontier AI. The Startups segment serves fast-moving, high-growth companies that are often building new products, workflows, and businesses directly on top of AI. These customers move quickly, operate with high ambiguity, and expect practical, creative, and technically rigorous partnership. About the Role We are looking for an AI Deployment Engineering Manager, Startups to lead and scale the Startups AI Deployment Engineering motion. …
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