AI Support Engineer - San Francisco

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · User Operations

This role is for an AI Support Engineer on the User Operations team at OpenAI. The primary focus is on providing exceptional customer support and technical guidance to customers adopting OpenAI's AI products. The role involves troubleshooting complex issues, improving internal tooling using AI capabilities and scripting, and contributing to the scaling of support operations. While the role uses AI tools and supports AI products, it is not directly building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work directly with customers, solving their most complex problems and providing ownership and education on the use of our platforms.
  2. Be among the foremost experts on everything related to OpenAI products, even where our AI does not have the answer.
  3. Be among the last line of defense before our core Product and Engineering teams, and partner with engineering and customer teams to resolve issues.
  4. Use scripting and emerging AI capabilities to improve internal tooling and automate recurring processes.
  5. Take learnings from resolving customer issues and create our approach to scaling these solutions, partnering with product and Go-To-Market teams.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in user operations, technical support, or support engineering roles
  • comfortable using emerging technologies (ie. Codex, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, etc.) to script or engineer code (e.g., Python or similar) for automating repetitive tasks and integrating tools
  • expert-level SaaS troubleshooting skills with the ability to rapidly understand new technologies and complex concepts
  • Naturally question established norms, skillfully identify root causes, and proactively drive innovation and process improvements
  • among the very best critical thinkers, problem solvers, and communicators of complex technical issues in the industry
  • Thrive in ambiguity, adapt rapidly to change, continuously learn, and proactively seek opportunities for growth
  • proven experience building strong relationships with customers and cross-functionally to drive resolution to complex issues
  • high horsepower, are adept at frequent context switching and working on multiple projects at once with expansive ownership and prioritization

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, another relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience in user operations, technical support, or support engineering roles
  • expert-level SaaS troubleshooting skills
  • very best critical thinkers, problem solvers, and communicators of complex technical issues in the industry