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OpenAI

Applied AI Engineer, Quants

OpenAI

. Partner directly with quantitative investment and trading firms to identify opportunities across research, data analysis, and software development .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeLondon • United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and deploying AI systems, with a strong focus on quantitative research and development. Proficient in Python and experienced in creating reliable production systems that meet enterprise requirements for security, performance, and data governance.

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Quantitative Research ExperienceAI Application DevelopmentHigh Proficiency In PythonEnterprise Production RequirementsTechnical Communication Skills

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Hard Skills
Quantitative ResearchAI Systems DevelopmentPython ProgrammingData WorkflowsStatistical EvaluationMachine Learning SystemsDebuggingArchitecture DesignProduction EngineeringIntegration
Soft Skills
Technical JudgmentCommunication Across TeamsEnd-To-End OwnershipProblem SolvingCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
LLMsResearch ToolsEvaluation HarnessesProduction AcceleratorsObservability ToolsData Governance Tools
Industry Keywords
Quantitative InvestmentTrading FirmsCustomer WorkflowsMeasurable Business OutcomesSecurityPrivacyCost Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Partner directly with quantitative investment and trading firms to identify opportunities across research, data analysis, and software development
  • Translate customer needs into practical implementations, evaluations, and measurable outcomes
  • Design, build, and deploy AI systems that solve customer problems and produce measurable business outcomes
  • Build 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 resolve blockers
  • Help customers progress from prototypes to reliable production systems, sustained adoption, and scaled impact
  • Lead technical workshops and hands-on sessions for quantitative researchers and engineers
  • Translate deployment experience, evaluations, and feedback into requirements for Product, Research, and Engineering
  • Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance for future enterprise deployments

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience in quantitative research, quantitative development, or a closely related role, or excellent understanding of quantitative investment and trading teams
  • Practical, hands-on experience with LLMs or building AI applications
  • Substantial personal contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or production engineering
  • High proficiency in Python
  • Experience building and debugging research tools, data workflows, or software systems
  • Rigorous approach to evaluating quantitative, statistical, or machine-learning systems
  • Experience with 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
  • Ability to communicate across engineers, technical leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives
  • Ability to work with high agency, technical judgment, and end-to-end ownership in ambiguous environments

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Relocation assistance to new employees
  • Hybrid work model
  • Immigration and sponsorship support may be provided based on individual circumstances