OpenAI
Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives
$251K–$278K
New York City · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of deep, hands-on technical experience.
About the job
Leads customer-facing AI engineering projects, taking API-based applications from use-case discovery and prototyping through evaluation, production deployment, and scale.
What you'll do
- Partner with technical customer leaders to design, build, and launch AI applications and agentic experiences.
- Develop prototypes, pilots, and model evaluations; advise on architecture, reliability, safety, and production readiness.
- Share deployment learnings with OpenAI Product and Research teams and contribute best practices.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of deep, hands-on technical experience.
- Track record personally leading complex, production-scale AI/ML systems from discovery through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact.
- Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar languages.
- Experience building production-quality prototypes and reference implementations.
Pay
$251K – $278K USD base salary
Tools
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript
AI focus
Deploy frontier AI capabilities in customer applications, including agent architectures, prompt and context engineering, model evaluations, safety, and security.
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