Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives

The role

You will partner with Digital Native companies to design, build, and deploy AI-powered products and systems. You will write and debug code, build evaluation systems, and guide technical decisions to ensure production readiness and business impact.

What you will do

• Partner with Digital Native customers to identify opportunities and translate them into technical architectures and implementation plans.
• Design, build, and deploy AI systems that solve customer problems.
• Work hands-on in code to build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, and production accelerators.
• Make technical decisions regarding models, agents, retrieval, tools, data, reliability, and security.
• Diagnose complex implementation challenges and drive blockers toward resolution.
• Help customers progress from prototypes to reliable production systems.
• Partner with customer engineering and OpenAI teams to provide product feedback.
• Create reusable architectures, tooling, and technical guidance.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated track record of designing, building, and delivering AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments.
• Substantial personal contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or production engineering.
• 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.