AI Deployment Engineer, Startups

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Responsibilities

• ▹Work directly with strategic startup customers to understand critical workflows and uncover failure modes
• ▹Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflow designs to better understand system behavior
• ▹Synthesize and deliver feedback to Product and Research, turning usage patterns into reproducible evals and technical artifacts
• ▹Build repeatable tools, patterns, and evaluation approaches that raise the quality bar across use cases
• ▹Operate with strong judgment in ambiguous environments, balancing immediate problem-solving with longer-term improvement
• ▹Build relationships within the startup ecosystem as a technical partner to customers and the broader community

Requirements

• ▹Strong software engineering and AI fundamentals (e.g., experience as a startup CTO, software engineer, ML engineer, or data scientist)
• ▹Experience shipping production systems end-to-end is a strong plus
• ▹Experience as a technical founder or engineer at an early-stage startup
• ▹Familiarity with, or interest in, model training pipelines and reinforcement learning
• ▹Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems, and reasoning clearly about model behavior in complex workflows
• ▹Comfortable working directly with highly technical users and translating their challenges into concrete technical signals
• ▹Moves fluidly between prototyping, debugging, evaluation design, and cross-functional collaboration
• ▹Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical audiences

Soft skills

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and safely deploys them through its products.