Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Mandarin-speaking)
Singapore · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Singapore
About OpenAI
- OpenAI 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.
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About the role
- We are seeking a technically proficient, business-minded Applied AI Engineer to help push the frontier of advanced AI with our strategic startup customers.
- You'll work with some of the most exciting AI startups in the world, guiding them through ideation, development, delivery, and scaling to accelerate and maximize the value of what they build on our platform.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with strategic startup customers as their technical thought partner to build novel applications on our API, helping them rapidly move from ideation to scale.
- Provide proactive guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate application development.
- Experiment and prototype alongside customers, demonstrating practical use cases.
- Contribute to open-source resources and scale the function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing useful resources.
- Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the Product and Research teams.
- Build relationships within the startup ecosystem, serving as a technical partner to both individual customers and the broader community.
- Partner with the Sales team across startup accounts to identify customer opportunities, align technical work with business goals, and help customers bring AI applications to production.
Requirements
- Ability to speak Mandarin is a requirement as you will be working with Mandarin-speaking customers and/or vendors in the role.
- Have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ML engineer or equivalent, ideally in a startup environment
- Proficient in Python, JavaScript, and a strong grasp of AI/LLM best practices.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience as a founder or founding engineer is highly valued.
Benefits
- relocation assistance to new employees
Workplace
- This role is based in our Singapore office.
- We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
Skills
- Python
- JavaScript
- AI/LLM
