Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives

About the role

The Applied AI Engineering team helps organizations turn frontier AI capabilities into safe, reliable, and high-impact production systems. As an Applied AI Engineer, you will partner with Digital Native companies to design, build, and deploy AI-powered products, taking ideas from experimentation through to production scale. You will work hands-on with customer teams to resolve complex integrations and ensure technical decisions align with business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with Digital Native customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into technical architectures, implementation plans, and evaluation strategies.
• Design, build, and deploy AI systems that solve important customer problems and produce measurable business outcomes.
• Work hands-on in code to build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, integrations, and production accelerators.
• Make sound technical decisions across models, agents, retrieval, tools, data, reliability, observability, latency, cost, safety, security, and governance.
• Diagnose complex implementation challenges, reproduce failures, test hypotheses, and drive blockers toward resolution.
• Help customers progress from promising prototypes to reliable production systems, sustained adoption, and scaled impact.
• Partner closely with customer engineering teams and internal OpenAI teams to translate deployment experience into product feedback.
• Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance that accelerate future enterprise deployments.

Required skills

• Python
• AI application stack
• System evaluation
• Production engineering
• Software engineering

Nice to have

• JavaScript
• TypeScript

Qualifications

• Background in applied AI or ML engineering
• Background in forward-deployed engineering
• Background in software engineering
• Background in solutions architecture or technical consulting

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. The company pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and seeks to safely deploy them to the world through its products.