OpenAI

Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives

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21 hours ago
Munich, GermanySenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with enterprise and digital-native customers to identify opportunities and translate them into architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and success criteria.
  • Design, build, prototype, evaluate, and deploy AI systems that produce measurable customer outcomes.
  • Write and debug code, build evaluation harnesses and reference implementations, and develop production accelerators.
  • Resolve complex integrations and diagnose implementation failures involving reliability, latency, cost, safety, security, governance, and operational readiness.
  • 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 deployments.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments from prototype through production.
  • Fluency in both German and English.
  • Substantial personal contributions to production code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or engineering rather than only program or stakeholder management.
  • High proficiency in Python and comfort working across an AI application stack; JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant language is valuable.
  • Ability to systematically evaluate AI systems using representative data, graders, production signals, and human judgment.
  • Experience navigating enterprise production 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 with engineers, technical leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives.
  • Strong technical judgment, high agency, end-to-end ownership, adaptability, and collaborative working style.

Benefits

  • Munich-based hybrid work model requiring three days in the office per week.
  • 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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