Manager, Partner Applied AI Engineering (AWS)

Overview

ABOUT THE TEAM The Applied AI Engineering (AAE) team is responsible for helping developers and enterprises turn the potential of generative AI into real-world impact. We act as trusted advisors and technical partners to customers and ecosystem partners, helping identify high-impact AI use cases and bring them into production through strong architectural guidance and hands-on execution. The Partner Applied AI Engineer

What you'll do

• In this role, you will own the technical success strategy for AWS-aligned partners and help build scalable, repeatable ways for partners and their customers to adopt OpenAI technologies.
• Your team will guide partners and customers across the full AI implementation lifecycle-from identifying and shaping high-value use cases to solution design, architecture, production deployment, optimization, and adoption growth.
• You will work cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders across Sales, Partnerships, Product, Research, and Engineering to ensure the voice of partners and customers informs our platform roadmap and how we bring OpenAI technology into production at scale.
• This role requires a blend of technical depth, customer leadership, operational rigor, and people management.
• Success will be measured through production deployments, partner technical maturity, API adoption growth, team development, and the overall impact of the AWS partner ecosystem.
• This role is based in our San Francisco office.
• We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Applied AI Engineers supporting strategic AWS partner engagements and customer deployments.

Requirements

• Practical experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go.
• Experience level: 8+ yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in San Francisco.

Skills