Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives

The role

You will partner with enterprise and digital native customers to design, build, and deploy AI systems. You will write code, build evaluation systems, and guide technical decisions to deliver measurable business outcomes.

What you will do

• Partner with customers to translate opportunities 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, and reliability.
• 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

• Demonstrated track record 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.
• Have navigated enterprise production requirements such as integrations, reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, and cost.
• Can connect technical decisions to customer workflows, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.
• Can communicate with clarity and credibility across engineers, technical leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives.
• Bring high agency, strong technical judgment, and end-to-end ownership in ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

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

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. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.