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Applied AI Engineer, Startups

OpenAI· Go To Market
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Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Applied AI Engineer role within OpenAI's Go To Market team, partnering with strategic startup customers to ideate, develop, deliver, and scale AI applications on OpenAI's API, with emphasis on feedback to product and research and collaboration across Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product.

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.

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.
  • Passion for startups and belief in their potential to become future large enterprises.
  • Proficient in Python, JavaScript, and a strong grasp of AI/LLM best practices.
  • Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of our API platform.
  • Ability to proactively identify opportunities for maximizing customers’ business value through leveraging the OpenAI API.
  • Own problems end-to-end and willingness to learn necessary knowledge to get the job done.
  • Humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and willingness to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
  • Effective, high throughput operator who can drive multiple concurrent projects and prioritize ruthlessly.
  • Ability to speak Japanese and English fluently.

Skills

Required:PythonJavaScriptAI/LLM best practicesPrototype & product experimentationJapanese language

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance to new employees (for Tokyo-based role)
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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