Applied AI Engineer — Enterprise Production Systems

OpenAI, Inc.; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer in London to design, build, and deploy AI-powered products and systems for Digital Native customers. You will work with customer teams through experimentation, evaluation, production launch, and scale, wiring technical decisions to business impact.

You will write and debug code, build evaluation systems, and guide decisions on model behavior, latency, cost, safety, and governance. The role emphasizes production readiness and measurable customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing, building, and delivering AI/ML systems in enterprise environments.
• Experience taking systems from prototype to production and scaling deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy AI systems that solve important customer problems and produce measurable business outcomes.
• Work hands-on in code to build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, reference implementations, integrations, and production accelerators.
• Partner with customer engineering teams and OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and GTM teams to translate deployment experience into product feedback.

Skills

Python

ML engineering

Enterprise deployments

Systems design

Tools

TypeScript

JavaScript

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer in London to design, build, and deploy AI-powered products and systems for Digital Native customers. You will work with customer teams through experimentation, evaluation, production launch, and scale, wiring technical decisions to business impact.

You will write and debug code, build evaluation systems, and guide decisions on model behavior, latency, cost, safety, and governance. The role emphasizes production readiness and measurable customer outcomes.