AI Deployment Engineer - Startups

OpenAI
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving"]

technically proficient engineer blending software engineering and AI with startup customers to optimize workflows, design reproducible evaluations, and shape product directions. Works across research, product, and engineering to translate complex customer challenges into durable, scalable improvements in OpenAI’s systems and offerings.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
2 months ago

AI Deployment Engineer - Startups

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Job Summary

technically proficient engineer blending software engineering and AI with startup customers to optimize workflows, design reproducible evaluations, and shape product directions. Works across research, product, and engineering to translate complex customer challenges into durable, scalable improvements in OpenAI’s systems and offerings.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Work directly with strategic startup customers to understand critical workflows, uncover failure modes, and identify high-impact opportunities for improvement.
  • •Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflow designs to better understand system behavior and unlock customer value.
  • •Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the Product and Research teams, turning real usage patterns into clear, reproducible evals, benchmarks, and technical artifacts that improve model and product quality and ensure customer-grounded learnings influence roadmap and model development.
  • •Build repeatable tools, patterns, and evaluation approaches that raise the quality bar across multiple use cases.
  • •Operate with strong judgment in ambiguous environments, balancing immediate technical problem-solving with longer-term system improvement.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Relocation

Key Requirements

  • •Strong software engineering and AI fundamentals; experience shipping production systems end-to-end is a strong plus.
  • •Experience as a startup CTO, software engineer, ML engineer, Data Scientist, or equivalent, or as an engineer at an early stage startup.
  • •Familiarity with model training pipelines and reinforcement learning.
  • •Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems, and ability to reason about model behavior in complex workflows.
  • •Ability to work directly with highly technical users and translate their challenges into concrete technical signals; able to move between prototyping, debugging, evaluation design, and cross-functional collaboration.
Experience:AIStartupOpenAI
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AIEvaluation systemsModel training pipelinesReinforcement learning

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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