OpenAI

Applied AI Engineer

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3 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with enterprise customers to define technical architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and measurable success criteria.
  • Design, build, and deploy AI systems that address customer problems and deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Write code for prototypes, evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, integrations, and production accelerators.
  • Evaluate AI systems, diagnose implementation failures, test hypotheses, and resolve complex technical blockers.
  • Guide customers from prototypes to reliable production systems, sustained adoption, and scaled impact.
  • Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance for future deployments.
  • Translate customer deployment experience into product feedback while collaborating with OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and go-to-market teams.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments from prototype through production.
  • Substantial personal contributions in coding, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or production engineering.
  • High proficiency in Python and comfort working across an AI application stack.
  • Ability to systematically evaluate AI systems using representative data, graders, production signals, and human judgment.
  • Experience with enterprise requirements including integrations, reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, and cost.
  • Ability to connect technical decisions to customer workflows, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.
  • Clear communication across engineers, technical leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives.
  • Experience in applied AI or ML engineering, forward-deployed engineering, software engineering, customer engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting is relevant; JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant language is valuable.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days per week in the Sydney office.
  • Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Categories

Forward Deployed
OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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