Applied AI Engineer: Scale GenAI for Startups

OpenAI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

the company in Singapore is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to guide startup customers from ideation to scale on our API, serving as a trusted technical advisor across Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams.

This role offers a hybrid schedule (3 days in the office weekly) and relocation assistance, with Mandarin-speaking customers, Python/JavaScript expertise, and hands-on prototyping to deliver practical AI solutions safely while accelerating adoption.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software/ML engineering experience, ideally in startups.
• Founder or founding engineer experience is highly valued.
• Proficient in Python and JavaScript; strong AI/LLM patterns knowledge.
• Experience building prototypes on our API platform.
• Able to engage Mandarin-speaking customers/vendors.

Responsibilities

• Partner startup customers as the technical thought partner to build novel applications on our API.
• Provide guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate development.
• Experiment and prototype with customers, showing practical use cases.
• Contribute to open-source resources and share knowledge across teams.
• Synthesize feedback to Product and Research teams.
• Build relationships within the startup ecosystem and broader community.
• Collaborate with Sales to identify opportunities and drive production-ready AI applications.

Skills

Mandarin language

Python

JavaScript

Startup experience

Prototype development

Tools

API platform experience

Job description

the company in Singapore is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to guide startup customers from ideation to scale on our API, serving as a trusted technical advisor across Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams.

This role offers a hybrid schedule (3 days in the office weekly) and relocation assistance, with Mandarin-speaking customers, Python/JavaScript expertise, and hands-on prototyping to deliver practical AI solutions safely while accelerating adoption.