Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise - EDU
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will act as a technical partner to universities and other educational institutions, turning ambitious AI use cases into durable production systems. You will write and debug code, build evaluation systems, resolve complex integrations, and guide decisions on model behavior, reliability, latency, cost, safety, security and governance. Your deployment experience will also feed back into how products evolve.
Requirements
- Personally designed, built and shipped AI or ML systems in enterprise environments
- Highly proficient in Python
- Experience with model APIs, agent and tool development, retrieval and data pipelines, evaluation, observability and integrations
- Ability to evaluate AI systems systematically
- Experience with enterprise production requirements including security, privacy, data governance, performance and cost
- Clear communication with engineers, technical leaders, security, product teams and executives
- Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript is valuable
- Education or research environment experience is valuable
Responsibilities
- Design, build, evaluate and deploy AI systems from prototype to production and scaled adoption
- Partner with enterprise customers to translate opportunities into technical architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies and success criteria
- Make technical decisions across model selection, agent and tool design, retrieval, data pipelines, evaluation, reliability, observability, latency, cost, safety, security and governance
- Diagnose complex implementation challenges and drive blockers to resolution
- Turn deployment experience into product feedback with customer engineering and OpenAI teams
- Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks and technical guidance
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonuses
- Medical, dental and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
