Applied AI Engineer, Codex is open at OpenAI in San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $211K - $278K. Posted on Nov 21, 2025, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are seeking a technically deep, creativity-driven Applied AI Engineer who is already a power user of AI coding tools and passionate about pushing the boundaries of developer productivity. You will partner directly with engineering leaders and hands-on builders to design, validate, and scale advanced AI workflows, often using Codex to prototype and build the very demos, integrations, and automations customers…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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