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Relevant backgrounds may include applied AI or ML engineering, forward-deployed engineering, software engineering, customer engineering, solutions architecture, product engineering or technical consulting.\n\nAre fluent in both French and English\n\nCan point to substantial personal contributions in code, architecture, evaluation, debugging, or engineering of production systems-not only program or stakeholder management.\n\nAre highly proficient in Python and comfortable working across an AI application stack; experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant language is valuable.\n\nUnderstand how to evaluate AI systems systematically using representative data, graders, production signals, and human judgment.\n\nHave navigated enterprise production requirements such as integrations, reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, and cost.\n\nCan connect technical decisions to customer workflows, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.\n\nCommunicate with clarity and credibility across hands-on engineers, technical leaders, security teams, product leaders, and executives.\n\nBring high agency, strong technical judgment, and end-to-end ownership in ambiguous environments.\n\nLearn quickly, challenge assumptions constructively, and collaborate with humility; experience in a particular industry or with OpenAI products is not required.\n\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. 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