Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives

OpenAI · London, UK

Posted Nov 3, 2026 · full time

Est. total comp~$158K–$260K

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About the Team

OpenAI’s Applied AI Engineering team helps organizations turn frontier AI capabilities into safe, reliable, and high-impact production systems. We work with customer executives, product and engineering teams, security leaders, and transformation teams to identify valuable opportunities, accelerate technical implementation, and scale what works.

Enterprise deployments are defined by complexity rather than any one industry: existing architectures, diverse data environments, security and governance requirements, multiple stakeholder groups, and organization-wide change. We turn lessons from these deployments into better products and reusable patterns for customers everywhere.

About the Role

As an Applied AI Engineer, you will partner directly with Digital Native companies to design, build and deploy AI-powered products and systems. Working alongside customer product and engineering teams, you will take ideas from early experimentation through evaluation, production launch and scale, connecting technical decisions to user experience and measurable business impact.

You will write and debug code, build evaluation systems, resolve complex integrations, and guide decisions involving model behavior, reliability, latency, cost, safety, security, governance, and operational readiness. Success is measured by production systems, sustained adoption, and meaningful customer impact—not simply activity or successful demonstrations. …

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