Applied AI Engineer, Startups
OpenAI · Tokyo, Japan
CHECKED 36M AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Partner with top AI startups to take novel GenAI apps from idea to scale.
- Prototype creative API use cases and feed insights to product and research.
- Build open-source resources and shape startup ecosystem best practices.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Entrepreneurial engineer with 5+ years building and scaling products, passionate about startups and GenAI. A humble, high-throughput problem-solver who thrives partnering with founders in Japanese and English.
Requirements
- 5+ years as a software engineer, ML engineer or equivalent, ideally in startups
- Founder or founding engineer experience highly valued
- Proficient in Python, JavaScript and AI/LLM best practices
- Experience building prototypes on OpenAI API platform
- Proactive, end-to-end ownership with ability to drive multiple projects
- Fluent in Japanese and English
- 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