Applied AI Engineer

The role

You will partner with enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy AI systems. You will work hands-on in code to create prototypes, evaluation systems, and production implementations.

What you will do

• Partner with enterprise customers to identify opportunities and translate them into technical architectures and implementation plans.
• Design, build, and deploy AI systems to 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 OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and go-to-market teams.
• 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.
• Communicate with clarity and credibility across engineers, technical leaders, and executives.
• 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 to new employees

About the company

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