OpenAI

Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives

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23 days ago
São Paulo, BrazilSenior

Responsibilities

  • Embed with technical platform customers as a technical thought partner for building applications on OpenAI’s API.
  • Build prototypes, pilots, model evaluations, and reference implementations to test ideas and guide architecture decisions.
  • Lead solutions from use-case selection and architecture through production deployment, scale, adoption, and measurable customer impact.
  • Advise CTOs and AI product and engineering leaders on maximizing business impact, reliability, latency, cost, safety, security, governance, and operational readiness.
  • Collaborate with Product and Research teams to validate frontier AI capabilities and provide feedback for the product roadmap.
  • Evaluate emerging model capabilities, developer tools, and implementation patterns and publish practical best practices.
  • Conduct on-site customer workshops and implementation sessions, resolving technical challenges and strengthening customer relationships.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of deep, hands-on technical experience and willingness to work closely with customers.
  • Track record of personally leading complex, production-scale AI/ML systems from ambiguous discovery through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact.
  • Knowledge of agent architecture patterns, advanced prompt and context engineering, evaluation frameworks, safety, and security.
  • Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar languages, with the ability to build production-quality prototypes and reference implementations.
  • Strong technical judgment, prioritization, ownership, and ability to make clear recommendations with incomplete information.
  • Ability to operate effectively in dynamic, ambiguous environments and manage multiple projects.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring 3 days per week in the São Paulo office.
  • Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
  • Occasional travel is required for customer workshops and implementation sessions.

Categories

AI ApplicationsForward 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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