Applied AI Engineer, QuantsNew

The opportunity

OpenAI’s Applied AI Engineering team helps organizations turn frontier AI capabilities into safe, reliable, and high-impact production systems. We work with customer executives, product and engineering teams, security leaders, and transformation teams to identify valuable…

What you'll do

  • Work directly with quantitative investment and trading firms to identify: opportunities across research, data analysis and software development, translating their needs into practical implementations, evaluations and measurable outcomes.

  • Design, build, and deploy AI systems that solve important customer problems: and produce measurable business outcomes.

  • Work hands-on in code to build prototypes, evaluation harnesses, reference: implementations, integrations, and production accelerators.

  • Make sound technical decisions across models, agents, retrieval, tools, data,: reliability, observability, latency, cost, safety, security, and governance.

  • Diagnose complex implementation challenges, reproduce failures, test: hypotheses, and drive blockers toward resolution.

  • Help customers progress from promising prototypes to reliable production: systems, sustained adoption, and scaled impact.

What they're looking for

  • Lead technical workshops and hands-on sessions that help quantitative: researchers and engineers apply OpenAI’s models and Codex effectively in their day-to-day work.
  • Bring the needs of quant customers into OpenAI’s product development,: translating deployment experience, evaluations and feedback into clear requirements for Product, Research and Engineering.
  • Create reusable architectures, tooling, playbooks, and technical guidance: that accelerate future enterprise deployments.
  • Have worked in quantitative research, quantitative development or a closely: related role, or can demonstrate an excellent understanding of how quantitative investment and trading teams operate. You understand their research processes, technical environments and expectations for rigorous evaluation.