Applied AI Engineer, Startups

The role

You will partner with strategic startup customers to build novel applications on the OpenAI API. You will guide them from ideation to scale and provide feedback to Product and Research 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.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ML engineer or equivalent.
• Proficient in Python and JavaScript.
• Strong grasp of AI/LLM best practices.
• Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of the OpenAI API platform.
• Can proactively identify opportunities for maximizing customers' business value through the OpenAI API.
• Own problems end-to-end.
• Effective, high throughput operator who can drive multiple concurrent projects and prioritize ruthlessly.
• Speak Japanese and English fluently.

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.