Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives

About the Position

We are seeking an Applied AI Engineer to join our API Platform, Digital Natives team at OpenAI. This role is pivotal in ensuring the safe and effective deployment of generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. You will act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our API customers, working to build an effective backlog of frontier AI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance.

Location

• San Francisco, CA
• Seattle, WA

Employment Type

• Full-time

Location Type

• Hybrid

Compensation

• Base Salary: $251K – $278K
• Equity: Included
• Benefits:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid time off
  • 13+ paid company holidays
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices
  • Relocation support
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits

Responsibilities

• Deeply embed with our most sophisticated and technical platform customers, serving as their technical thought partner in ideating and building novel applications on our API.
• Forge relationships with CTOs, AI Product and engineering leaders to ensure their application’s successful deployment at scale.
• Proactively provide guidance to our customers on how to maximize business impact from their applications, accelerating their time to value.
• Build targeted prototypes, pilots, and model evaluations with customer teams to test product ideas, guide architecture decisions, and inform their product roadmaps.
• Collaborate with our Product and Research teams in validating upcoming frontier AI capabilities in customer environments, and deliver high-signal feedback to steer OpenAI’s roadmap.
• Scale the Applied AI Engineer function through sharing knowledge and publishing best-practices to our internal and external repositories.
• Evaluate emerging model capabilities, developer tools, and implementation patterns, and translate relevant advances into practical recommendations for customer applications.
• Work alongside customer teams through on-site workshops and implementation sessions, helping resolve technical challenges and strengthen relationships. This includes occasional travel.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of deep, hands-on technical experience.
• Skills:
  • Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar languages.
  • Experience with building production-quality prototypes and reference implementations.
• Attributes:
  • Strong technical judgment.
  • Humble attitude and eagerness to help others with empathy.
  • Ability to operate with high horsepower, adept at frequent context switching, and working on multiple projects at once with expansive ownership.
  • Thrive in dynamic environments and can navigate ambiguity with ease.

Nice to Have

• Track record of personally leading complex, production-scale AI/ML systems from ambiguous discovery through production deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact.
• Passion for being on the forefront of the latest AI industry trends, including agent architecture patterns, advanced prompt and context engineering, evaluation frameworks, safety, and security.

We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with leading technology companies.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our team.

Join us in shaping the future of technology.