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Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex)

Location

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Work type

Hybrid

Employment

Full Time

Experience

8+ years

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

Posted

2d ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

The Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex) will lead a team focused on integrating OpenAI's Codex into customer software development lifecycles. This role involves guiding the design and implementation of AI-enabled workflows, solving complex technical challenges, and establishing scalable patterns for AI-powered software development. The manager will also be responsible for team leadership, strategy, and translating customer needs into product insights.

OpenAI is seeking an experienced technical leader to join as Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex). This role leads a team of Applied AI Engineers working hands-on with strategic enterprise customers to integrate Codex, build AI-enabled software development lifecycles, and establish scalable architectures for AI-powered programming.

POSITION: Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex) LOCATIONS: Munich or Berlin, Germany WORK MODEL: Hybrid (3 days/week in-office) RELOCATION: Relocation assistance provided

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Leadership & Technical Strategy:

  • Hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of Applied AI Engineers supporting strategic customer accounts.

  • Define and execute the operating model and technical engagement strategy for enterprise Codex adoption.

  • Coach engineers on architectural consulting, stakeholder engagement, and technical advisory practices for enterprise engineering leadership.

Architecture & Solutions Delivery:

  • Guide customer engineering teams in designing AI-assisted development workflows, agentic coding systems, automated evaluations, and robust deployment architectures.

  • Serve as the principal technical escalation point for complex integration hurdles, edge cases, and architectural reviews.

  • Create reusable reference architectures, implementation playbooks, and standardized technical patterns to accelerate safe, scalable AI software development.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Feedback:

  • Partner closely with Sales, Research, Product, and Engineering teams to align customer implementations with core product roadmaps.

  • Synthesize real-world deployment telemetry, workflow friction points, and customer feedback into actionable engineering and model development inputs.

  • Champion safe, reliable, and secure standards for AI-assisted code generation across enterprise environments.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 8+ years of experience in deeply technical, customer-facing positions (applied AI engineering, solutions architecture, deployment engineering, or technical consulting).

  • 2+ years of direct people management experience, including hiring, evaluating, and mentoring software engineers.

  • Hands-on experience developing or deploying generative AI models, agentic systems, developer platforms, or cloud architectures in production.

  • Strong software engineering foundation with professional coding fluency in Python, JavaScript, or related modern languages.

  • Deep familiarity with modern SDLC tooling (CI/CD, version control, automated testing, containerization) and intuition for AI-driven developer productivity.

  • Proven capability to lead architectural discussions with senior engineering leaders and C-suite stakeholders.

  • Comfort navigating ambiguous scale-up environments and defining engagement frameworks from first principles.

ABOUT OPENAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company committed to ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer providing reasonable accommodations and relocation assistance.

Updated 2d ago

Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Generative AI • 1+ yrs
Agentic Systems • 1+ yrs
Python • 1+ yrs
JavaScript • 1+ yrs
Solutions Architecture • 1+ yrs
Software Development Lifecycles • 1+ yrs
Leadership • 1+ yrs
Communication • 1+ yrs

Experience

8+ years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Engineering

Industries

Software & SaaS

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

Compensation not disclosed

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Benefits and perks

Relocation Assistance

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationMunich, Bavaria, Germany
Work typeHybrid
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleHigh • 9/10
physicalLow • 2/10
cognitiveHigh • 9/10
executionHigh • 8/10
creativityHigh • 8/10
uncertaintyHigh • 8/10
communicationHigh • 9/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

OpenAI

Team size

Growing team

Location

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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 the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex)

Munich, Bavaria, Germany • Full Time