OpenAI is hiring an Applied Deployment Engineer to build and deepen ChatGPT integrations with third-party messaging platforms.
About the role: Hands-on, partner-facing engineering role working with external product and engineering teams to improve integrations, expand capabilities, increase retention, and translate partner needs into product and engineering roadmaps.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with messenger app product and engineering teams to design ChatGPT-powered experiences.
- Deepen existing partner integrations to improve UX, retention, reliability, and feature set.
- Build prototypes, integration guides, reference flows, and launch checklists.
- Debug API, latency, authentication, quota, quality, and user-experience issues across partner and OpenAI systems.
- Translate privacy, trust, login, and data-handling requirements into technical constraints and implementation plans.
- Work cross-functionally to make partner launches reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
- Capture repeatable patterns and create reusable playbooks for future partners.
- Travel periodically to meet with international partners during key milestones.
Requirements / Preferred qualifications:
- Strong software engineering background and comfort writing code daily.
- Experience building or deploying API integrations with external partners (client, backend, auth, privacy, reliability, UX).
- Strong product sense and design judgment for consumer-facing experiences.
- Experience debugging distributed systems and narrowing performance/reliability issues.
- Familiarity with OAuth/login flows, API rate limits, webviews, mobile release cycles, and partner launch operations.
- Experience with AI product launches, developer platforms, or API-first products and prior customer/partner-facing engineering experience.
- Ability to work across cultures and time zones and travel internationally as needed.
Location & conditions: Based in San Francisco office, hybrid model (3 days in office per week). Relocation assistance provided to new employees.