Applied AI Engineer, Large Enterprise

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
About OpenAI

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About the Role

You will partner directly with leading organizations to design, build and deploy AI systems, taking ideas from use-case selection and architecture through prototyping, evaluation, production launch and scale. 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.

Requirements

  • 5+ years designing, building and delivering AI or ML systems in enterprise environments
  • Fluent in German and English
  • Substantial personal contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging or production engineering
  • Highly proficient in Python
  • Ability to evaluate AI systems systematically
  • Experience with enterprise production requirements
  • Clear communication across engineers, leaders and executives
  • Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript is valuable

Responsibilities

  • Partner with enterprise and digital native customers to translate opportunities into technical architectures, plans, evaluation strategies and success criteria
  • Design, build and deploy AI systems that solve customer problems
  • Build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, integrations and production accelerators
  • Make technical decisions across models, agents, retrieval, tools, data, reliability, observability, latency, cost, safety, security and governance
  • Diagnose complex implementation challenges and drive blockers to resolution
  • Help customers progress from prototypes to production and scaled adoption
  • Translate deployment experience into product feedback with customer and OpenAI teams
  • Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks and technical guidance

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance
  • Hybrid work model