About the job
AI Deployment Engineer for Startups
About the Team
The AI Deployment Engineering team collaborates closely with pioneering startups. We serve as trusted advisors and thought partners, ensuring that OpenAI’s technology is deployed safely and effectively. Our work involves partnering with engineering, research, and product teams to translate insights into evaluation systems, product enhancements, and improved model performance.
This team operates at the nexus of customer needs and model quality. We merge hands-on technical expertise with strong product judgment to convert complex, high-value use cases into actionable signals that enhance both the customer experience and the underlying systems.
About the Role
We are on the lookout for a technically adept, product-oriented engineer eager to advance AI with our strategic startup partners. You will engage with some of the most innovative AI startups globally, assisting them in optimizing their systems while translating those insights into sustainable improvements across OpenAI’s research and products. You will collaborate on intricate workflows, pinpoint critical gaps, and transform those into reproducible evaluations and technical insights, thereby influencing OpenAI's research and product trajectory.
This position is ideal for engineers who excel at debugging workflows, refining prompts or agents, designing evaluations, and liaising across research and product teams. You should be enthusiastic about tackling ambiguous, high-impact challenges and motivated by the chance to influence how advanced AI systems evolve in practice.
This role particularly emphasizes building relationships within the startup ecosystem, including presentations to developer and startup audiences. Strong communication skills are essential, as you will discuss high-level technical trends alongside deeper technical engagements with specific startups.
This position is based in our Singapore office, utilizing a hybrid work model of three in-office days per week, along with relocation assistance for new hires.
In this Role, You Will:
- Engage directly with strategic startup clients to comprehend essential workflows, uncover failure modes, and identify impactful opportunities for enhancement.
- Prototype and refine prompts, agents, and workflow designs to gain insights into system behaviors and unlock customer value.
- Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the OpenAI product and research teams.
