Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives

OpenAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer based in London to design, build and deploy AI-powered products and systems for Digital Native customers. You will partner with customer product and engineering teams, taking ideas from early experimentation through production, evaluating model behavior, reliability, latency, cost, safety and governance, and delivering measurable business impact.

This hybrid role includes relocation assistance and the opportunity to influence OpenAI’s product evolution at

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with Digital Native customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into technical architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and measurable success criteria.
• Design, build, and deploy AI-powered products and systems for production environments.
• Collaborate with customer product and engineering teams to ensure reliability, latency, cost, safety and governance considerations are met.

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI’s Applied AI Engineering team helps organizations turn frontier AI capabilities into safe, reliable, and high-impact production systems. We work with customer executives, product and engineering teams, security leaders, and transformation teams to identify valuable opportunities, accelerate technical implementation, and scale what works. Enterprise deployments are defined by complexity rather than any one industry: existing architectures, diverse data environments, security and governance requirements, multiple stakeholder groups, and organization-wide change. We turn lessons from these deployments into better products and reusable patterns for customers everywhere.

About the Role

As an Applied AI Engineer, you will partner directly with Digital Native companies to design, build and deploy AI-powered products and systems. Working alongside customer product and engineering teams, you will take ideas from early experimentation through evaluation, production launch and scale, connecting technical decisions to user experience and measurable business impact. You will write and debug code, build evaluation systems, resolve complex integrations, and guide decisions involving model behavior, reliability, latency, cost, safety, security, governance, and operational readiness. Success is measured by production systems, sustained adoption, and meaningful customer impact—notsimply activity or successful demonstrations. This is a rare opportunity to work on consequential real-world deployments at the frontier of AI while directly influencing how OpenAI’s products evolve. This role is based in London. 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:

• Partner directly with Digital Native customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into technical architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and measurable success criteria.
• Design, build, and