Applied AI Engineer

Location: Munich, Germany; hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week. Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building and safely deploying general-purpose artificial intelligence products.

What you will do

• Partner with enterprise and digital-native customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into technical architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and measurable success criteria.
• Design, build, prototype, evaluate, and deploy AI systems that solve customer problems and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Write and debug code for evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, integrations, and production accelerators.
• Make technical decisions across models, agents, retrieval, tools, data, reliability, observability, latency, cost, safety, security, and governance.
• Diagnose complex implementation challenges, reproduce failures, test hypotheses, and guide customers from prototypes to reliable production systems and sustained adoption.
• Collaborate with customer engineering teams and OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and go-to-market teams to create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments, including taking systems from prototype to production.
• Fluency in both German and English.
• Substantial personal contributions to code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or engineering of production systems.
• High proficiency in Python and comfort working across an AI application stack.
• Ability to evaluate AI systems systematically using representative data, graders, production signals, and human judgment.
• Experience navigating enterprise production requirements including integrations, reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, and cost.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to customer workflows, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.
• Clear and credible communication with hands-on engineers, technical leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives.
• High agency, strong technical judgment, end-to-end ownership in ambiguous environments, rapid learning, constructive challenge, and humble collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant programming language.
• Experience in a particular industry or with OpenAI products is not required.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement based in Munich with 3 office days per week.
• Relocation assistance for new employees.
• Work on consequential real-world AI deployments at the frontier of the technology.
• Commitment to safe AI development, human needs, inclusion, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations.