About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for helping customers turn frontier AI capabilities into real products, workflows, and business impact. We act as trusted technical partners across solution design, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption, working alongside customers to build and scale effective AI applications with OpenAI’s technologies. The Codex Applied AI Engineering team focuses on helping organizations transform how software is built with AI. We partner directly with engineering teams and technical leaders to integrate Codex into their software development lifecycle — from identifying high-impact use cases and designing AI-enabled workflows to implementation, evaluation, and scaled adoption. Our work helps ensure AI-powered software development is effective, reliable, secure, and deeply integrated into how engineering organizations operate. About the Role We are seeking an experienced technical leader to join as Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex) , leading a team of Applied AI Engineers responsible for driving successful Codex adoption across strategic customers. Your team will work hands-on with customer engineering organizations to design and build AI-enabled development workflows, solve complex implementation challenges, and establish scalable patterns for AI-powered software development. As a manager, you will shape how these technical engagements operate at scale — setting strategy, coaching engineers, determining where the team can have the greatest impact, and ensuring consistently strong execution across customers. You will serve as both a people leader and senior technical advisor, partnering closely with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering to translate customer needs and real-world usage into better technical approaches, reusable patterns, and product insights. Success in this role will be measured by meaningful and sustained Codex adoption, successful customer outcomes, and the creation of repeat
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About the Team The Applied AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As the Manager of Applied AI Architects in Munich, you will lead a team of senior technical leaders responsible for the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value for OpenAI's Digital Native customers across the DACH region. Your team will act as the “CTO of the book of business,” partnering with customer executi
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Lead complex, multi-threaded customer journeys that connect executive vision and business outcomes with use-case qualification, solution evaluation, enterprise governance, and a credible path to production; Establish a rigorous view of portfolio health, including technical wins, qualified use cases, production readiness, adoption, usage, risks, measurable customer impact, and the technical contribution to growth; Bring 10+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as solutions architecture, solutions engineering, technical account leadership, AI deployment, or technical consulting, including work with large and complex enterprises
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FONDER L'INNOVATION (depuis 1984) Partie I [le début n'avait même pas 2 fin.s] : The Book of.f MandaloriÂn.e Studio d'innovation ouvert.e (Open Innovation) issu de la fusion des activités du bureau d'étude (BE) de la marque 2 fabrique OPENAI (Open Ahead Inspiration) créée initialement à Genève (CH)
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