Applied AI Engineer

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

Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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About the Role

You will partner with enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy AI systems. You will create prototypes, evaluation harnesses, integrations, and production accelerators; resolve implementation challenges; guide technical decisions; and help customers scale reliable systems with sustained adoption.

Requirements

  • Experience designing, building, and delivering enterprise AI or machine-learning systems from prototype to production
  • Hands-on code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or production engineering experience
  • Python proficiency
  • AI application-stack knowledge
  • Knowledge of AI evaluation using representative data, graders, production signals, and human judgment
  • Knowledge of enterprise integrations, reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, and cost
  • Ability to connect technical decisions to customer workflows, adoption, and business outcomes

Responsibilities

  • Identify high-value customer opportunities and translate them into architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and success criteria
  • Design, build, and deploy AI systems
  • 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 implementation challenges and resolve blockers
  • Help customers move prototypes into reliable production systems
  • Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance for new employees