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OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
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
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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 thought partner to startup customers, helping them move AI applications from ideation to production and scale. You will prototype practical use cases, provide technical guidance, share best practices, collect feedback, and align customer work with business goals.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ML engineer, or equivalent
- Python proficiency
- JavaScript proficiency
- Knowledge of AI and LLM best practices
- Experience building or delivering prototypes on the API platform
- Ability to identify customer business-value opportunities using the API
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects
Responsibilities
- Partner with strategic startup customers to build applications on the API
- Provide guidance that maximizes business impact and accelerates application development
- Experiment and prototype alongside customers
- Contribute open-source resources and codify best practices
- Synthesize and deliver customer feedback to Product and Research teams
- Build relationships across the startup ecosystem
- Partner with Sales to identify opportunities and help customers bring AI applications to production
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families with employer HSA contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO or up to 15 days annually depending on exemption status
- Paid holidays, coordinated office closures, and sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided