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Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Mandarin-speaking)

OpenAI· Go To Market
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Hybrid (Singapore)Full-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Technical Applied AI Engineer role focused on guiding Mandarin-speaking startup customers through ideation, development, delivery, and scaling of AI applications on the OpenAI API, within a hybrid Singapore-based office.

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.
  • Partner with the Sales team across startup accounts to identify customer opportunities, align technical work with business goals, and help customers bring AI applications to production.

Qualifications

  • Have ability to speak Mandarin is a requirement as you will be working with Mandarin-speaking customers and/or vendors in the role.
  • Have 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.
  • Have passion for startups and a belief in their potential to become future large enterprises.
  • Are proficient in Python, JavaScript, and a strong grasp of AI/LLM best practices.
  • Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of our API platform.
  • Can proactively identify opportunities for maximizing our customers’ business value through leveraging the OpenAI API.
  • Own problems end-to-end and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.
  • Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
  • Are an effective, high throughput operator who can drive multiple concurrent projects and prioritize ruthlessly.

Skills

Required:Mandarin proficiencySoftware engineering / ML engineeringPythonJavaScriptAI/LLM best practices

Benefits

  • relocation assistance to new employees
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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