AI Deployment Engineer - Startups

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Responsibilities

• ▹Work directly with strategic startup customers to understand critical workflows and identify high-impact opportunities
• ▹Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflow designs
• ▹Synthesize and deliver customer feedback to Product and Research as reproducible evals and benchmarks
• ▹Build repeatable tools, patterns, and evaluation approaches
• ▹Operate with strong judgment in ambiguous environments, balancing immediate fixes with long-term improvement
• ▹Build relationships within the startup ecosystem as a technical partner

Requirements

• ▹Strong software engineering and AI fundamentals, e.g. 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
• ▹Fluent French (required for this role)

Nice to have

• ▹Ability to move fluidly between prototyping, debugging, evaluation design, and cross-functional collaboration

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Relocation assistance
• ▹Hybrid work model (3 days in the Paris office per week)

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.