Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives
OpenAI · San Francisco · Seattle
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Frontier labremotesenior$251k–$278k
At a glance
Highlights
- Embed with tech leaders like Stripe, Uber, and Reddit to ship AI features.
- Take frontier model capabilities from prototype to production at scale.
- Partner with product and research to steer OpenAI's roadmap.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed builder with 8+ years shipping production AI systems who thrives in ambiguity, loves rapid experimentation, and cares about safe, high-impact deployment of frontier AI.
Requirements
- 8+ years of deep, hands-on technical experience working closely with customers
- Track record leading complex, production-scale AI/ML systems from discovery to adoption and measurable impact
- Passion for frontier AI trends including agents, prompt and context engineering, evaluations, safety and security
- Proficient in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript or similar and comfortable building production-quality prototypes
- Strong technical judgment and ability to make clear recommendations with incomplete information
- Thrive in dynamic, ambiguous environments with multiple projects and expansive ownership
- 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