Applied AI Engineer

About the role

OpenAI's Applied AI Engineering team helps enterprises turn frontier AI into reliable production systems. Based in Sydney with a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the office, this role pairs hands-on engineering with direct customer leadership.

What you'll do

• Work with enterprise customers to find high-value use cases and translate them into architectures, implementation plans and success metrics.
• Build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, reference implementations and integrations directly in code.
• Make technical calls across models, agents, retrieval, tooling, reliability, latency, cost, safety, security and governance.
• Debug complex deployment issues and move customers from prototype to scaled production adoption.
• Share deployment learnings with OpenAI product, research and engineering teams, and create reusable playbooks.

Requirements

• Proven record delivering AI/ML systems in enterprise settings, from prototype through production.
• Substantial personal contributions in code, architecture, evaluation or production engineering.
• Strong Python skills across an AI application stack; JavaScript or TypeScript is a plus.
• Experience evaluating AI systems with representative data, graders and production signals.
• Clear communication with engineers, security teams and executives, plus high ownership in ambiguous environments.