Partner Applied AI Engineer, Oracle and Cloud ISV

📋 Job Overview

The Applied AI Engineering team helps developers and enterprises deploy generative AI safely and effectively. We serve as trusted technical advisors, helping customers and partners move from early experimentation to production-scale AI systems.

🏢 About OpenAI

OpenAI is a research laboratory that focuses on artificial intelligence. The company's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

🎯 The Role

We are looking for an experienced technical leader to work with partner architects, AI specialists, and sales teams across three distinct routes to market. You will lead technical work from joint account discovery and architecture through evaluation and production, alongside OpenAI account teams and partner sellers. You will help customers choose the right deployment and purchasing path for the workload, with clear ownership of security, billing, support, and operations.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Strategic partner engagement and influence
• Build relationships with Oracle, Snowflake, and Databricks field leaders and technical teams.
• Lead technical discovery, architecture, prototyping, evaluation, and production readiness.
• Validate model and feature availability, identity and network boundaries, data handling and residency, capacity, metering, and support ownership.
• Build reference implementations with OpenAI APIs and partner-native capabilities.
• Create demos, workshops, reference architectures, and playbooks that partner engineers, field teams, and systems can use.

🎁 Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.