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The Demo Studio at OpenAI translates the company's most advanced AI capabilities into tangible, high-impact experiences for customers. The team operates at the intersection of product, engineering, design, and go-to-market, functioning as a hybrid product studio and live production team.
As a Demo Studio Engineer, you will independently own defined demo projects from initial brief through delivery. You'll translate approved product positioning and audience needs into working applications, believable workflows, and clear narratives. Your responsibilities include:
- Independently delivering demo projects for events, webinars, and executive engagements, managing milestones and communicating progress, risks, and dependencies
- Translating positioning, real product capabilities, and customer needs into clear narratives and realistic workflows
- Building working applications and high-fidelity demo environments using ChatGPT Work, Codex, APIs, and connected tools
- Testing, debugging, and validating demos with fallback and recovery plans
- Personally presenting live and recorded demonstrations to executive, technical, and industry audiences
- Preparing presenter guidance, participating in rehearsals, and troubleshooting during delivery
- Collaborating across Product, Research, Engineering, Design, Product Marketing, Solutions Engineering, GTM, and Events teams
- Creating reusable components, reference demos, and documentation
- Identifying scope and delivery tradeoffs early and proposing solutions
You'll combine technical fluency, product thinking, and storytelling to make complex technology understandable through experience.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Demonstrated experience building technical demos, prototypes, customer-facing applications, or similar interactive experiences
- Ability to independently take a moderately scoped project from brief to delivery, anticipate challenges, and communicate effectively with stakeholders
- Comfortable writing and debugging code, working with APIs and data, and connecting tools into AI-powered workflows
- Strong working knowledge of technical areas with practical judgment about usability, reliability, and technical limitations
- Ability to turn complex technical concepts into clear stories grounded in real customer needs
- Experience presenting technical work live and communicating clearly with executive, technical, and nontechnical audiences
- Collaborative approach across functions, incorporating different perspectives and constructively challenging assumptions
- Strong attention to craft and detail, follow-through on commitments, and ability to stay calm under pressure
- Curiosity about AI and active exploration of how new capabilities create useful customer experiences
