Applied AI Engineer, Large Enterprise (AI)

Location: Munich or Berlin, 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 developing general-purpose AI systems with a focus on safe, beneficial deployment.

What you will do

• Partner with enterprise and digital-native customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and measurable success criteria.
• Design, build, prototype, evaluate, and deploy AI systems that deliver measurable customer outcomes.
• Develop 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 move customer systems from prototypes to reliable production and sustained adoption.
• Collaborate with customer engineering teams and OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and go-to-market teams, providing product feedback from deployments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of 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 in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or production-system engineering; program or stakeholder management alone is insufficient.
• Highly proficient in Python and comfortable working across an AI application stack.
• Ability to evaluate AI systems systematically using representative data, graders, production signals, and human judgment.
• Experience navigating enterprise 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 engineers, technical leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives.
• High agency, strong technical judgment, end-to-end ownership, rapid learning, constructive challenge of assumptions, and collaborative 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 with three days per week in the office.
• Relocation assistance for new employees.
• Work includes consequential real-world AI deployments at the frontier of the technology.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.