AI Deployment Engineer, Startups

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · India · Remote · Go To Market

AI Deployment Engineer role focused on guiding strategic startup customers in building and scaling novel applications on OpenAI's API. The role involves technical thought partnership, prototyping, providing business impact guidance, and synthesizing feedback for internal teams. It requires strong software engineering and AI/LLM best practices knowledge, with an emphasis on end-to-end problem ownership and collaboration within the startup ecosystem.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. Provide proactive guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate application development.
  3. Experiment and prototype alongside customers, demonstrating practical use cases.
  4. Contribute to open-source resources and scale the function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing useful resources.
  5. Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the Product and Research teams.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • AI/LLM best practices
  • Software engineering
  • ML engineering

Nice to have

  • startup environment experience
  • founder or founding engineer experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ML engineer or equivalent
  • Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of our API platform
  • Own problems end-to-end

Other signals

  • customer-facing technical guidance
  • drive to production
  • collecting and delivering high-fidelity product and model feedback internally
  • building novel applications on our API
  • experiment and prototype alongside customers