Applied AI Engineer

Location: Sydney, Australia; 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 developing general-purpose artificial intelligence products with a focus on safe, reliable, and beneficial deployment.

What you will do

• Partner with enterprise 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.
• Build evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, integrations, production accelerators, reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance.
• 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 drive blockers toward resolution.
• Collaborate with customer engineering teams and OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and go-to-market teams while translating deployment experience into product feedback.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments, including taking systems from prototype to production.
• Substantial personal contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or production engineering, beyond program or stakeholder management.
• 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 such as 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, and end-to-end ownership in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to learn quickly, challenge assumptions constructively, and collaborate with humility.

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 model with 3 days per week in the office.
• Relocation assistance for new employees.
• Work on consequential real-world AI deployments and influence how OpenAI products evolve.
• Commitment to safe AI development, human needs, diverse perspectives, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations.