Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives

The role

You will work with technology companies to bring new AI capabilities into their products. You will take ideas from architecture through prototyping, evaluation, and production launch.

What you will do

• Embed with technical platform customers to build novel applications on the API
• Forge relationships with CTOs and engineering leaders
• Provide guidance to customers to maximize business impact
• Build prototypes, pilots, and model evaluations
• Collaborate with Product and Research teams to validate frontier AI capabilities
• Scale the function by sharing knowledge and publishing best-practices
• Evaluate emerging model capabilities and implementation patterns
• Work alongside customer teams through on-site workshops and implementation sessions

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of deep, hands-on technical experience
• Track record of leading complex, production-scale AI/ML systems from discovery to deployment
• Proficient in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar languages
• Ability to build production-quality prototypes and reference implementations
• Strong technical judgment
• Humble attitude and eagerness to help others with empathy
• Ability to operate with high horsepower and frequent context switching
• Ability to navigate ambiguity

Nice to have

• Passion for agent architecture patterns, advanced prompt and context engineering, evaluation frameworks, safety, and security

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.