Applied AI Engineer for Production-Ready AI Solutions

OpenAI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; 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 hands-on in code, develop evaluation harnesses, and guide decisions across models, retrieval, and governance to deliver measurable business impact.

You will join an organization that values safety, reliability, and operational readiness, with a hybrid work model and relocation support for new hires.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and delivering AI or ML systems in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on coding to build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, and production accelerators.
• Ability to translate deployment experience into product feedback and architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Digital Native customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into architectures and plans.
• Design, build, and deploy AI systems that deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Write and debug code, build evaluation systems, and integrate complex components.
• Make technical decisions across model choice, retrieval, tools, data, reliability, latency, cost, safety, security, and governance.
• Diagnose implementation challenges, reproduce failures, test hypotheses, and drive blockers to resolution.
• Help customers progress prototypes to reliable production systems with sustained adoption.
• Collaborate with OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, and GTM teams to translate deployment experience into product feedback.
• Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and guidance for future deployments.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

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 hands-on in code, develop evaluation harnesses, and guide decisions across models, retrieval, and governance to deliver measurable business impact.

You will join an organization that values safety, reliability, and operational readiness, with a hybrid work model and relocation support for new hires.