OpenAI

Applied AI Engineer, Codex

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9 hours ago
Munich, GermanySenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with engineering leaders and developers to identify Codex opportunities and define architectures, implementation plans, evaluations, and success criteria.
  • Design, build, and deploy AI-powered software development workflows, integrations, automations, prototypes, evaluation harnesses, and production accelerators.
  • Evaluate AI coding systems using representative tasks, automated graders, production signals, and developer feedback.
  • Diagnose complex implementation challenges and make technical decisions involving models, agents, developer environments, reliability, observability, security, privacy, performance, cost, and safety.
  • Lead technical deep dives, workshops, and hands-on enablement for engineering organizations.
  • Translate customer deployment insights into product proposals, model feedback, technical requirements, reusable architectures, tooling, and technical resources.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering software or AI systems in enterprise environments from prototype through production.
  • Substantial personal contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, integrations, or production engineering.
  • High proficiency in Python and comfort working across modern software development environments.
  • Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant programming language is valuable.
  • Active use of AI coding tools and a strong perspective on improving developer productivity and software engineering workflows.
  • Understanding of systematic evaluation for AI coding systems, including representative tasks, automated evaluations, production signals, and developer feedback.
  • Experience navigating enterprise requirements such as developer tooling integrations, reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, and cost.
  • Ability to connect technical decisions to developer workflows, adoption, engineering productivity, and business outcomes.
  • Ability to communicate credibly with engineers, engineering leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives.
  • Fluency in English and German.
  • Relevant backgrounds may include applied AI or ML engineering, forward-deployed engineering, software engineering, developer tooling, customer engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting.

Benefits

  • London-based hybrid work model requiring three days in the office per week.
  • Relocation assistance is available to new employees.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available to applicants with disabilities.

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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