OpenAI Is Hiring AI Engineers in 3 European Countries. Who Can Apply?

OpenAI is hiring Applied AI Engineers in London, Paris, and Munich. The role suits software engineers who want to work directly with companies building on OpenAI’s technology and take their products from early experiments to full production.

The Applied AI Engineer will work directly with digital-native companies, which are businesses that started online and rely on software and digital products to run their operations. The role involves identifying business problems that artificial intelligence can solve and developing products that address them.

To do this, you will combine technical judgement, hands-on engineering and customer leadership to take ambitious ideas from initial use-case selection and system architecture through prototyping, evaluation, production launch and scale.

You will write and debug code, build evaluation systems, resolve complex integrations and guide decisions around model behaviour, reliability, response time, cost, safety, security and data governance.

Success in the role will depend on whether these products make it into production, attract sustained customer use and deliver measurable business results, rather than simply produce successful demonstrations.

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What are the requirements?

While the job responsibilities are largely similar across the three locations, there are some differences in the requirements based on where you intend to work.

For the vacancies in Germany and France, applicants must be fluent in both the country's local language and English. This means anyone applying for the Paris position must speak French and English fluently, while candidates for Munich need proficiency in German and English.

Generally, OpenAI says candidates should have a demonstrated track record of designing, building, and delivering AI or machine-learning systems in enterprise environments. They should also be able to show that they have taken projects from prototypes to production. According to the career page, applicants will thrive in this role if they:

• Have experience in applied AI or machine learning engineering, forward-deployed engineering, software engineering, customer engineering, solutions architecture, product engineering, or technical consulting.
• Are highly proficient in Python and understand how to evaluate AI systems through representative data, evaluation tools, production signals, and human judgment. Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript is also valuable.
• Have handled enterprise requirements such as software integrations, reliability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, and cost.
• Can connect technical decisions to customer needs and business results, communicate with engineers and executives, and take ownership of projects even when requirements are unclear.

The company also values people who learn quickly, challenge assumptions constructively, and work well with others. Previous experience in a particular industry or with OpenAI products is not compulsory.

Can applicants outside the UK and EU apply?