AI Deployment Engineer, Digital Natives

Slope; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Slope is seeking an AI Deployment Engineer to partner with customers and drive frontier AI solutions from prototype to production. You will work with customer leadership, engineering, and product teams to design an enterprise AI architecture leveraging OpenAI APIs and related services.

You will help customers achieve tangible business value, guiding platform adoption, and sharing best practices across teams. The role is hybrid, based in SF or Seattle, with relocation support available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical consulting or equivalent experience.
• Proficient in Python and JavaScript.
• Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of our API platform.
• Led complex technical projects and programs with many stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Embed with our most technical platform customers as a trusted technical partner.
• Provide guidance to maximize business impact from applications.
• Experiment and prototype solutions with and for customers.
• Forge and manage relationships with customer leadership to ensure deployment and scale.
• Contribute to open-source developer and enterprise resources.
• Scale the AI Deployment Engineering function by sharing knowledge and best practices.
• Deliver high-signal feedback to Product, Engineering and Research teams.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

API prototyping

Project leadership

OpenAI APIs

Tools

OpenAI API Platform

Cloud services

Job description

About the team

The AI Deployment Engineer team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of frontier AI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. As an AI Deployment Engineer in the Digital Native segment, you’ll help large and highly sophisticated companies transform their business through custom AI solution applications such as customer service, automated content generation, contextual search, personalization, and other novel use cases leveraging OpenAI’s newest, most exciting models and latest capabilities.

About the role

We are looking for a driven solutions leader with a product mindset to partner with our customers and ensure they achieve tangible business value with frontier AI. You will pair with senior customer leaders to establish AI strategic roadmaps and identify the highest value applications. You’ll then partner with their engineering and product teams to move from prototype through production. You’ll take a holistic view of their needs and design an enterprise architecture using OpenAI APIs and other services to maximize customer value. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product.

Location & Working Arrangement

This role is based in our SF or Seattle office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Deeply embedded with our most sophisticated and technical platform customers, serving as their technical thought partner in ideating and building novel applications on our APIs.
• Proactively provide guidance to our customers on how to maximize business impact from their applications, accelerating their time to value.
• Experiment and prototype solutions with and for your customers.
• Forge and manage relationships with our customers’ leadership and stakeholders to ensure their application’s successful deployment and scale.
• Contribute to our open-source developer and enterprise resources.
• Scale the AI Deployment Engineering function through sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing cookbooks to our internal and external repositories.
• Validate, synthesize, and deliver high-signal feedback to the Product, Engineering, and Research teams.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have 5+ years of technical consulting (or equivalent) experience.
• Are proficient in Python and JavaScript.
• Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of our API platform.
• Led complex technical projects and programs with many stakeholders.
• Can proactively identify opportunities for maximizing our customers’ business value through leveraging the OpenAI APIs.
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you’re missing to get the job done to ensure both your team and our customers succeed.
• Are excited to contribute to the development of frontier AI capabilities by consolidating and channeling feedback from the field to our product and applied research teams.
• Have a humble attitude and an eagerness to help others with empathy.
• Operate with high horsepower, are adept at frequent context switching and working on multiple projects at once with expansive ownership, and ruthlessly prioritize.
• Thrive in dynamic environments and can navigate ambiguity with ease.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Compliance & Background Check Information

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

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