[Remote] Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OpenAI’s Applied AI Engineering team helps organizations turn AI capabilities into production systems. The Enterprise Applied AI Engineer partners with customers to design, build, deploy, and scale AI systems, while informing OpenAI’s products through deployment experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with enterprise customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into technical architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and measurable success criteria
• 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 OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and go-to-market teams, translating deployment experience into high-signal product feedback
• Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance that accelerate future enterprise deployments

Skills

• Have a demonstrated track record of designing, building, and delivering AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments, including taking systems from prototype to production
• Can point to substantial personal contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or production engineering—not only program or stakeholder management
• Are highly proficient in Python and 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
• Communicate with clarity and credibility across hands-on engineers, technical leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives
• Bring high agency, strong technical judgment, and end-to-end ownership in ambiguous environments
• Learn quickly, challenge assumptions constructively, and collaborate with humility
• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant language is valuable

Benefits

• Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
• Relocation assistance to new employees.

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