# Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Codex) [OpenAI](https://www.jorb.ai/firms/openai.md) · London · United Kingdom · [Backend](https://www.jorb.ai/jobs/backend.md) OpenAI is hiring a Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Codex) in London. Posted 2026-09-24; applications close 2026-11-23. **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/840963bb-7b1a-4021-91a0-40baf71b7e20 Posted 2d ago. ## Role details ## About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team works closely with frontier startups. We serve as trusted advisors and thought partners, ensuring that OpenAI’s technology is deployed safely and effectively. We also partner with engineering, research, and product teams to translate these insights into evaluation systems, product improvements, and better model behavior. This team sits at the intersection of customer reality and model quality. We combine deep technical expertise with strong product judgment to translate complex, high-value use cases into clear signals that improve both the customer experience and the underlying systems. ## About the Role As an Applied AI Engineer focused on Codex for startups, you will help developers and founders transform how they build and ship software. You will combine hands-on engineering, startup experience, and compelling technical communication to help teams turn the potential of AI coding tools into practical, effective workflows. Presentations and community engagement are central to this role. You will engage developers and founders through technical talks, live demos, workshops, and various programs across the startup ecosystem, in addition to targeted work with individual customers. You will build reusable tools and resources to extend your impact and bring insights from developers back to OpenAI’s Product, Research, and Engineering teams. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both hands-on building and sharing what they learn. You should be as enthusiastic about leading a room of developers, delivering an engaging presentation, and building relationships in the startup community as you are about tackling a technical problem in code, with a focus on sustained adoption and meaningful improvements in how startups operate. ## Responsibilities - Partner with top startups to identify key areas where Codex can most significantly impact how their teams build and ship software. - Design and lead technical talks, live demos, workshops, hackathons, and repeatable hands-on programs designed to convert initial interest into sustained adoption. - Work directly with selected customers to build Codex workflows, integrations, and automations, resolving technical blockers while evaluating effectiveness and reliability. - Convert successful implementation approaches into reusable code examples, guides, and tools to help more startups succeed with Codex and OpenAI’s broader platform. - Collaborate with account teams, developer experience, and ecosystem partners to reach developers and founders, prioritize opportunities, and drive measurable customer value. - Translate customer experiences and developer feedback into actionable insights for OpenAI’s Product, Research, and Engineering teams. ## Qualifications You will thrive in this role if you: - Have experience building at, founding, or working closely with early-stage startups, demonstrating an understanding of the associated pace, ambiguity, and practical trade-offs. - Possess strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy building practical AI applications, integrations, and developer tools. - Are an active user of Codex or other AI coding tools, possessing a thoughtful perspective on how these tools can advance software development. - Are a compelling communicator who enjoys presenting, delivering live demos, and leading hands-on workshops for developers and founders. - Have a talent for translating complex technical ideas into clear explanations, engaging examples, and reusable resources that help others succeed. - Combine developer empathy with sound technical judgment: the ability to discover team needs, troubleshoot issues, and guide them toward adopting effective, reliable workflows. - Exhibit high agency, curiosity, and end-to-end ownership, capable of working independently while collaborating closely with colleagues and ecosystem partners. ## About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of AI system capabilities and seek to deploy them safely to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be built with safety and human needs at its core. To achieve our mission, we value the diverse perspectives, voices, and experiences that make up humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. Background checks will be administered according to applicable law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. Additionally, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. 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