Machine Learning Engineer, API MulticloudPosted today$295K–$445K

San FranciscoEducation

The opportunity

OpenAI’s API Multicloud team is responsible for extending OpenAI’s API platform into strategic cloud environments, starting with AWS . The team’s mission is to distribute OpenAI’s API broadly and safely by enabling key API technologies in AWS-native environments, in close…

What you'll do

  • Partner with strategic customers and internal teams to define target model: behaviors, diagnose failure modes, and translate real-world needs into training, evaluation, and system requirements.

  • Build and scale production ML systems for model customization, post-training,: and fine-tuning-as-a-service workflows.

  • Investigate whether training and customization workflows are producing the: intended outcomes, and identify changes to data, evaluation, training, or infrastructure that improve performance.

  • Partner with backend and infrastructure engineers to integrate ML: capabilities into AWS-native API environments.

  • Feed learnings from partner deployments back into the platform by proposing: and implementing improvements to post-training systems, tooling, APIs, and developer workflows.

  • Work closely with Research and Applied teams to bring model improvements,: training workflows, and evaluation best practices into production.

What they're looking for

  • Help design systems that allow strategic partners and enterprise customers to: safely customize OpenAI models for high-value use cases.
  • Debug and improve complex systems spanning model behavior, training data,: APIs, distributed infrastructure, and customer-facing product surfaces.
  • Operate with high ownership in a 0→1 environment where requirements are: ambiguous, systems are evolving quickly, and reliability matters.
  • Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.