Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives
OpenAI · New York City
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$251k–$278k
At a glance
Highlights
- Partner with Stripe, Uber, and Reddit to ship frontier AI features to real users.
- Take agentic experiences from rapid prototyping through production launch and scale.
- Deliver deployment lessons that directly steer OpenAI's product and research roadmap.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Seasoned hands-on builder who loves embedding with top product teams to turn ambiguous AI ideas into scaled production impact and shape frontier models.
Requirements
- 8+ years of deep, hands-on technical experience with eagerness to work closely with customers
- Track record leading complex, production-scale AI/ML systems from discovery through deployment and measurable impact
- Passionate about frontier AI trends including agent architectures, prompt and context engineering, evaluations, safety and security
- Proficient in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript or similar languages and building production-quality prototypes
- remote policy
- Hybrid – 3 days in office per week
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets