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Applied AI Engineer - Tokyo

OpenAI · Tokyo, Japan

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Partner with leading organizations to deploy AI with measurable business impact.
  • Take ambitious AI ideas from prototype through production launch and scale.
  • Turn enterprise deployment lessons into better products and reusable patterns.

What they offer

  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

High-agency engineer who loves owning AI systems end-to-end from prototype to production and partnering with customers to drive real-world impact. Fluent in Japanese and English, thrives in ambiguity with humility.

Requirements

  • Track record designing, building and delivering AI/ML systems in enterprise environments from prototype to production
  • Substantial hands-on contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging or production engineering
  • Highly proficient in Python with comfort across AI application stack
  • Experience systematically evaluating AI systems using data, graders and human judgment
  • Familiarity with enterprise production needs like reliability, security, privacy, governance and cost
  • Ability to link technical decisions to workflows, adoption and measurable business outcomes
  • Clear communicator with engineers, security teams, product leaders and executives
  • High agency and end-to-end ownership in ambiguous environments
  • 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
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