Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $251K - $278K. Posted on Jul 8, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
You will combine deep technical judgment, hands-on engineering, and customer leadership to take ambitious ideas from use-case selection and architecture through prototyping, evaluation, production launch, and scale. 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…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
Hiring at OpenAI
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