Applied AI Engineer, Startups

The role

You will act as a technical thought partner for strategic startup customers to build novel applications on the OpenAI API. You will guide customers from ideation to scale and provide product feedback to internal teams.

What you will do

• Partner with strategic startup customers to build novel applications on the API
• Provide proactive guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate application development
• Experiment and prototype alongside customers
• Contribute to open-source resources and share knowledge
• Synthesize and deliver feedback to Product and Research teams
• Build relationships within the startup ecosystem
• Partner with the Sales team to identify customer opportunities and align technical work with business goals

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ML engineer or equivalent
• Proficient in Python
• Proficient in JavaScript
• Strong grasp of AI/LLM best practices
• Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of the OpenAI API platform
• Ability to proactively identify opportunities for maximizing customer business value
• Ability to own problems end-to-end
• Effective, high throughput operator capable of driving multiple concurrent projects

Nice to have

• Experience in a startup environment
• Experience as a founder or founding engineer

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.