Applied AI Engineer, Large Enterprise

The role

You will partner with organizations to design, build, and deploy AI systems that deliver business outcomes. You will work on technical architectures, prototyping, evaluation, and scaling production systems.

What you will do

• Partner with enterprise and digital native customers to identify opportunities and translate them into technical architectures.
• Design, build, and deploy AI systems.
• Build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, integrations, and production accelerators.
• Make technical decisions regarding models, agents, retrieval, tools, data, reliability, observability, latency, cost, safety, security, and governance.
• Diagnose complex implementation challenges and drive blockers toward resolution.
• Help customers progress from prototypes to reliable production systems.
• Partner with OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and go-to-market teams.
• Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of designing, building, and delivering AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments.
• Fluent in both German and English.
• Substantial personal contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or engineering of production systems.
• Highly proficient in Python.
• Comfortable working across an AI application stack.
• Understand how to evaluate AI systems systematically using representative data, graders, production signals, and human judgment.
• Experience navigating enterprise production requirements such as integrations, reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, and cost.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer workflows and business outcomes.
• Ability to communicate with clarity and credibility across various technical and executive stakeholders.
• High agency, strong technical judgment, and end-to-end ownership in ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant language.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.