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# Manager, AI Deployment Engineering (Southeast Asia) at OpenAI

- **Company:** [OpenAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/openai)
- **Location:** Singapore
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/41df4950-f6b1-4f97-8b29-cd0a11f19e25

## Job description

## About the Team

The Technical Success team helps OpenAI’s customers realize meaningful and sustained value from our technology. We partner with customers throughout their journey—from initial exploration and solution design to production implementation and organization-wide adoption. Applied AI Engineers serve as trusted technical partners to customer executives, engineering teams, product leaders, security organizations, and transformation teams. They combine deep technical judgment with strong customer instincts, translating frontier AI capabilities into secure, reliable systems and durable business outcomes.

## About the Role

We are seeking a Manager to build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Applied AI Engineers supporting our enterprise customers. You will be accountable for the technical success of a broad and strategically important customer portfolio. You will help your team identify high-value opportunities, design and deploy production-grade AI systems, navigate complex technical and organizational constraints, and expand successful implementations across workflows, teams, and business units. This role requires technical depth, people leadership, customer judgment, and operational rigor. You should be comfortable coaching engineers through architecture and evaluation decisions, engaging directly in high-stakes customer situations, and collaborating with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and Legal. You will also help define how we serve enterprise customers at scale by developing effective coverage models, reusable implementation patterns, technical enablement, escalation mechanisms, and systems for turning field insights into high-quality product feedback. This role is open in our Singapore office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In This Role, You Will

- Build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of Applied AI Engineers supporting large and complex enterprise customers.
- Own the quality and impact of the team’s work across solution design, implementation, production readiness, adoption, and expansion.
- Coach the team through decisions involving architecture, model selection, evaluations, reliability, latency, safety, security, governance, and cost.
- Establish an operating model for prioritizing accounts and engagements according to customer needs, strategic value, technical complexity, and potential for repeatable impact.
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point during critical launches, production incidents, complex integrations, and high-stakes customer decisions.
- Partner with customer executives and technical leaders to connect implementation decisions to measurable business and operational outcomes.
- Help customers progress from experimentation to production systems and sustained adoption across their organizations.
- Partner closely with Sales and Solutions Engineering to create continuity throughout the customer lifecycle and maintain shared accountability for customer success.
- Translate customer needs and recurring implementation challenges into actionable feedback for Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and other internal teams.
- Identify scalable market patterns, distinguish them from bespoke requests, and advocate for investments that can benefit multiple customers.
- Develop reusable architectures, evaluation methods, playbooks, tooling, and enablement that improve time to value across the enterprise portfolio.
- Establish mechanisms for measuring production implementations, adoption, customer outcomes, delivery quality, team capacity, and the impact of reusable work.
- Hire thoughtfully, raise the technical and leadership bar, and foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning.
- Represent OpenAI with credibility and sound judgment in conversations with senior customer and internal stakeholders.

You Might Thrive in This Role If You

- Have significant experience managing customer-facing technical teams, such as Applied AI Engineers, Solutions Architects, Forward Deployed Engineers, Customer Engineers, or Technical Account Managers.
- Have built or led teams responsible for implementing complex software, data, machine learning, or AI systems in enterprise environments.
- Maintain sufficient technical depth to evaluate architectures, ask incisive questions, challenge assumptions, and coach engineers through difficult implementation decisions.
- Have experience taking AI, machine learning, or other technically complex systems from prototype to production.
- Understand production-system requirements, including reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, evaluation, and operational readiness.
- Have led teams through ambiguity, competing priorities, escalations, and rapidly evolving products or markets.
- Can translate effectively among technical details, customer needs, product strategy, and business outcomes.
- Have worked with large organizations involving multiple business units, stakeholder groups, procurement processes, or governance requirements.
- Demonstrate strong executive presence and can build trust with engineering leaders, business executives, security teams, and other senior stakeholders.
- Have designed operating models, coverage strategies, prioritization frameworks, or repeatable delivery processes for a growing technical organization.
- Are a strong cross-functional partner who can navigate disagreement directly while maintaining trust and shared accountability.
- Use data and clear principles to allocate limited resources across a large portfolio of opportunities.
- Care deeply about developing people and have a track record of coaching team members, raising performance, and building inclusive teams.
- Are energized by helping organizations adopt frontier AI responsibly and turn emerging capabilities into durable value.

Relevant Experience May Include

- Leading teams in applied AI engineering, solutions architecture, forward-deployed engineering, professional services, technical consulting, or customer engineering.
- Implementing generative AI, machine learning, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or other complex enterprise technologies.
- Working with customers in semiconductors, media, entertainment, or similarly complex and technology-intensive industries.
- Supporting global customers, multi-business-unit implementations, regulated workflows, or large-scale organizational transformations.
- Building technical enablement, reusable solution patterns, evaluation frameworks, or customer implementation methodologies.

Direct experience in these industries is not required. We value leaders who can recognize common technical and organizational patterns while adapting their approach to different customer environments.

## 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 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. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we 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](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf). Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and 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. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through [this form](https://form.asana.com/?d=57018692298241&k=5MqR40fZd7jlxVUh5J-UeA). No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this [link](https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241). [OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/global-employee-and-contractor-privacy-policy.pdf) At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

## About OpenAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity.
- **Entity Type**: Private – structured as a nonprofit parent (OpenAI Foundation) governing a for-profit public benefit corporation (OpenAI Group). The company has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, signaling a potential future IPO.
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba, and others

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence research and deployment
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises via API and platform), B2C (ChatGPT users), and developers (API, open-source models)
- **Mission**: To ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI systems that are generally smarter than humans – benefits all of humanity.

## Products & Services
- **[ChatGPT](https://openai.com/chatgpt)**: Conversational AI assistant available via web and mobile, used by consumers and integrated into enterprise workflows.
- **[GPT-4 API](https://openai.com/product)**: Large language model accessed via API for developers to build AI-powered applications (text generation, summarization, code assistance, etc.).
- **[DALL-E](https://openai.com/dall-e-3)**: Image generation model that creates images from natural language descriptions.
- **[Whisper](https://openai.com/research/whisper)**: Open-source speech recognition system.
- **[OpenAI Agents](https://openai.com/)**: Emerging product category focused on autonomous AI agents that can perform tasks on behalf of users (announced June 2026).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed in the provided sources. Widely reported in the press at ~$300 billion as of early 2026 (post-funding round), but this figure is not confirmed by OpenAI’s official materials.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding exceeds $13 billion from Microsoft and other investors. The company has also confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC (see [openai.com](https://openai.com/) – “Confidential submission of draft S-1”).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Microsoft (strategic partner and largest investor), with additional participation from Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring with 721 open roles posted; expansion into agent-based products; confidential IPO filing; continued deployment of frontier models.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & brand recognition**: ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer app in history, establishing OpenAI as the household name in generative AI.
- **Research leadership**: Consistently publishes cutting-edge research (GPT-4, DALL-E 3, Whisper, etc.) and attracts top AI talent.
- **Compute & infrastructure**: Exclusive partnership with Microsoft provides massive cloud computing resources (Azure) for training and inference.
- **Unique governance structure**: The nonprofit parent ensures mission alignment (AGI benefiting humanity) while the for-profit arm can raise capital and scale products.

## Strategic Focus
- **Safe AGI development**: Continued emphasis on safety research, alignment, and responsible deployment (e.g., safety systems, model provenance).
- **Enterprise expansion**: Growing ChatGPT Enterprise and API offerings for businesses.
- **Agentic AI**: Building autonomous agents that can “transform work” (announced June 2026).
- **IPO preparation**: Confidential S-1 filing indicates intent to go public, which will require increased financial transparency and governance maturity.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: OpenAI’s stated values include “Humanity first,” “Act with humility,” “Feel the AGI,” and “Ship joy.” Operating principles emphasize agency, creativity, rapid iteration, and intense focus.
- **Benefits**: Competitive health insurance, mental healthcare support, 24-week paid birth-parent leave (plus 20 weeks for other parents), generous PTO, annual learning & development stipend, daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and a domestic conference budget.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office-based (San Francisco headquarters). The company offers a residency program for researchers and engineers transitioning into AI.
- **Impact**: Employees work directly on frontier AI models that shape the industry and society. The mission-driven nature attracts talent passionate about AGI’s societal implications.

## Sources
1. [OpenAI About Page](https://openai.com/about/)
2. [OpenAI Careers Page](https://openai.com/careers/)
3. [OpenAI Job Search](https://openai.com/careers/search)
4. [OpenAI Homepage](https://openai.com/)

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