Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Mandarin-speaking)
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About the Position
Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Mandarin-speaking)
Singapore
About the Team
The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and startups. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to late-stage startups.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Partner closely with strategic startup customers as their technical thought partner to build novel applications on our API, helping them rapidly move from ideation to scale.
- Provide proactive guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate application development.
- Experiment and prototype alongside customers, demonstrating practical use cases.
- Contribute to open-source resources and scale the function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing useful resources.
- Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the Product and Research teams.
- Build relationships within the startup ecosystem, serving as a technical partner to both individual customers and the broader community.
- Partner with the Sales team across startup accounts to identify customer opportunities, align technical work with business goals, and help customers bring AI applications to production.
Requirements
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have the ability to speak Mandarin as you will be working with Mandarin-speaking customers and/or vendors in the role.
- Have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ML engineer, or equivalent, ideally in a startup environment; experience as a founder or founding engineer is highly valued.
- Have a passion for startups and a belief in their potential to become future large enterprises.
- Are proficient in Python, JavaScript, and have a strong grasp of AI/LLM best practices.
- Have built and/or delivered prototypes on top of our API platform.
- Can proactively identify opportunities for maximizing our customers’ business value through leveraging the OpenAI API.
- Own problems end-to-end and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.
- Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
- Are an effective, high throughput operator who can drive multiple concurrent projects and prioritize ruthlessly.
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. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Relocation assistance for new employees
- Opportunity to work in a hybrid model (3 days in the office per week)
- Be part of a mission-driven company that aims to benefit all of humanity
Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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