Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise

OpenAI

. Design, build, evaluate, and deploy AI systems from prototype to reliable production and scaled adoption .

Posted 11/6/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $251,000 - $278,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and deploying AI systems, with a strong focus on Python programming, model evaluation, and enterprise integration. Capable of translating customer needs into technical solutions while ensuring reliability, security, and measurable business outcomes.

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AI System DesignPython ProficiencyModel EvaluationEnterprise IntegrationTechnical Architecture

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Hard Skills

AI SystemsMachine LearningPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptData PipelinesModel APIsDebuggingProduction EngineeringSystematic AI Evaluation

Soft Skills

CommunicationTechnical JudgmentProblem SolvingEnd-to-End Ownership

Tools & Technologies

Automated GradersObservability ToolsIntegration Tools

Industry Keywords

Enterprise EnvironmentsEducation InstitutionsData GovernanceSecurityPrivacy

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptPythonTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, evaluate, and deploy AI systems from prototype to reliable production and scaled adoption
Solve important customer problems and deliver measurable business outcomes
Partner with enterprise customers, including universities and educational institutions, to identify high-value opportunities
Translate customer opportunities into technical architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and success criteria
Make technical decisions across model selection, agent and tool design, retrieval, context design, data pipelines, evaluation, reliability, observability, latency, cost, safety, security, and governance
Diagnose implementation challenges, reproduce failures, test hypotheses, and resolve blockers
Partner with customer engineering teams and OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and Go-to-Market teams
Turn deployment experience into actionable product feedback
Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance for future enterprise deployments

Requirements

What you’ll need

Personally designed, built, and shipped AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments, from prototype to production
Substantial contributions through coding, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or production engineering
Highly proficient in Python
Comfortable working end to end across model APIs, agent and tool development, retrieval and data pipelines, evaluation, observability, integrations, and production operations
Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant language is valuable
Knowledge of systematic AI evaluation using representative data, automated graders, production signals, and human judgment
Experience navigating enterprise production requirements, including integrations, reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, and cost
Experience navigating education or research environments is valuable
Ability to connect technical decisions to customer workflows, adoption, and measurable business outcomes
Ability to communicate with engineers, technical leaders, security and product teams, and executives
Ability to take end-to-end ownership, exercise strong technical judgment, and work through ambiguity
Experience working with education institutions, particularly universities, preferred but not required
Prior OpenAI product experience is not required

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expense accounts
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave: up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
Paid medical and caregiver leave: up to 8 weeks
Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays
Paid coordinated company office closures
Paid sick or safe time
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend
Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided