Startup AI Deployment Engineer — Scale GenAI Apps

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a technically proficient AI Deployment Engineer to help push the frontier of GenAI with startup customers. You’ll guide ideation, development, delivery, and scaling on our API, collaborating with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams at OpenAI.

Based in San Francisco, this role follows a hybrid model with 3 office days per week and relocation assistance for new hires.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ML engineer or equivalent, ideally in a startup environment; experience as a founder or founding engineer is highly valued.
• Have passion for startups and a belief in their potential to become future large enterprises.
• Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of our API platform.
• Can proactively identify opportunities for maximizing our customers’ business value through leveraging the OpenAI API.
• Own problems end-to-end and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.
• Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
• Are an effective, high throughput operator who can drive multiple concurrent projects and prioritize ruthlessly.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with strategic startup customers as their technical thought partner to build novel applications on our API, helping them rapidly move from ideation to scale.
• Provide proactive guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate application development.
• Experiment and prototype alongside customers, demonstrating practical use cases.
• Contribute to open-source resources and scale the function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing useful resources.
• Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the Product and Research teams.
• Build relationships within the startup ecosystem, serving as a technical partner to both individual customers and the broader community.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

AI/LLM best practices

Prototype development

Startup experience

Tools

OpenAI API

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a technically proficient AI Deployment Engineer to help push the frontier of GenAI with startup customers. You’ll guide ideation, development, delivery, and scaling on our API, collaborating with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams at OpenAI.

Based in San Francisco, this role follows a hybrid model with 3 office days per week and relocation assistance for new hires.