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full-timeDedicated Support Engineer - London
Openai · London, UK
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing advanced artificial intelligence systems. As a Dedicated Support Engineer based in London, you will act as a primary technical partner for premium customers, ensuring the reliability and success of their AI integrations. Your day-to-day responsibilities involve investigating complex technical issues, such as API failures, performance degradation, and authentication errors, using logs, telemetry, and systems-level analysis. You will serve as a critical escalation point, owning the response to high-impact incidents and coordinating across internal teams including Engineering, Product, and Technical Success. Beyond immediate troubleshooting, this role requires a proactive approach to monitoring customer architectures to identify failure patterns and improve workload resilience through automation and runbooks. This position is well-suited for experienced technical problem-solvers who possess deep curiosity and the ability to navigate ambiguous, high-stakes environments. You should be comfortable communicating technical findings to both engineering teams and business stakeholders while maintaining a clear understanding of the customer's operational context to drive long-term stability and product adoption.
About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customers’ adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others, to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role The Support Engineering team works closely with Engineering, Product, Technical Success, Go-to-Market, and other teams to deliver an exceptional experience for our most strategic customers. We combine deep technical troubleshooting with durable customer context, proactive reliability work, and clear ownership during critical moments. We use automation, agents, and our own technology to help build the future of technical support. We’re looking for experienced, deeply curious technical problem-solvers to serve as trusted support partners for our Premium Support customers. You’ll work directly with customers on novel, ambiguous, and high-impact technical issues, using logs, telemetry, reproduction, and systems-level investigation to isolate causes and drive issues toward resolution. Beyond resolving individual issues, you’ll use your deep understanding of OpenAI’s infrastructure and products, together with each customer’s architecture and operating context, to anticipate risk and make their workloads more resilient over time. You’ll proactively monitor integrations, identify emerging failure patterns and architectural breakpoints, and work with customers and internal teams to address them before they become incidents. Success means that as a customer’s workloads mature and scale, the day-to-day effort required to support them decreases through better monitoring, runbooks, automation, and preventative improvements. In this role, you will: Work directly with Premium Support customers to troubleshoot their most complex technical issues, including API failures, integration challenges, authentication errors, unexpected product behavior, performance degradation, and production incidents. Provide end-to-end technical ownership by analyzing logs and system behavior, reproducing errors, testing hypotheses, and isolating the likely failure domain. Where possible, you’ll identify the root cause before escalating to Engineering; where that is not possible, you’ll provide a clear hypothesis and the evidence needed to accelerate Engineering’s investigation. Become a trusted expert on OpenAI’s products and systems, serving as a critical escalation point and a technical backstop for our most strategic customers. Own the customer-specific response to high-impact incidents. You’ll assess severity and business impact, initiate the appropriate response path, coordinate cross-functional responders, maintain clear ownership, and ensure issues move through mitigation, resolution, and post-incident follow-through. Communicate clearly and proactively during periods of uncertainty, providing accurate updates to customer technical teams, business stakeholders, executives, and internal partners. Develop a detailed understanding of each customer’s architecture, integrations, dependencies, critical workloads, and operational constraints. You’ll document this context and make it accessible to Support, Product, and Engineering teams. Partner with Go-to-Market and Technical Success teams to understand the business importance of customer workloads and ensure that relevant commercial context informs severity, prioritization, and communication without bypassing established support processes. Represent Support Engineering in relevant customer meetings, including QBRs, and partner closely with account teams to communicate technical health, surface risks and blockers early, coordinate follow-up, and provide customers and internal stakeholders with clear, proactive updates. Monitor customer integrations and support trends to identify emerging risks, recurring failure patterns, and readiness gaps before they become major escalations. Prepare for important launches, migrations, traffic increases, and business events by developing account-specific runbooks, validating escalation paths, coordinating support readiness, and providing heightened monitoring where needed. Lead or contribute to incident reviews and postmortems, identify opportunities to prevent recurrence, and track corrective actions through closure. Translate recurring customer pain into clear, evidence-backed feedback for Product and Engineering, with a particular focus on improving the reliability and performance of existing products, integrations, and deployments. Turn what you learn from customer investigations into scalable improvements, i
| Role | Dedicated Support Engineer - London |
|---|---|
| Company | Openai |
| Location | London, UK |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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- 1ApplicationSubmit your resume through the apply link.
- 2ScreeningRecruiter reviews your background against the role.
- 3AssessmentA technical test, assignment, or coding round, depending on the role.
- 4Interview(s)One or more rounds with the hiring team.
- 5OfferOffer letter with compensation and start date.
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