OpenAI

Applied AI Engineer, Large Enterprise

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2 days ago
Munich, GermanySenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with enterprise and digital-native customers to define AI opportunities, technical architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and success criteria.
  • Design, build, and deploy AI systems that deliver measurable customer business outcomes.
  • Write and debug code for prototypes, evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, integrations, and production accelerators.
  • Make technical decisions across models, agents, retrieval, tools, data, reliability, observability, latency, cost, safety, security, and governance.
  • Diagnose implementation challenges, reproduce failures, test hypotheses, and drive blockers to resolution.
  • Guide customers from prototypes to reliable production systems, sustained adoption, and scaled impact.
  • Collaborate with customer engineering teams and OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and go-to-market teams.
  • Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance for future enterprise deployments.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience designing, building, and delivering AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments, including taking systems from prototype to production.
  • Fluency in both German and English.
  • Substantial hands-on contributions to code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or production-system engineering.
  • High proficiency in Python and comfort working across an AI application stack.
  • Experience or familiarity with systematic AI evaluation using representative data, graders, production signals, and human judgment.
  • Experience navigating 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.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, technical leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives.
  • Strong technical judgment, high agency, end-to-end ownership, rapid learning, and collaborative problem-solving.
  • Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, another relevant language, a particular industry, or OpenAI products is valuable but not required.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring 3 days per week in the office.
  • Role based in Munich or Berlin.
  • Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
  • Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations available.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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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