Hire applied ai engineers in the UK

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level · manages people
• Permanent

Lead and scale a team of Applied AI Engineers partnering with high-growth startups to move them from experimentation to production on OpenAI's platform. The role blends people leadership, hands-on technical depth, and cross-functional work with Sales, Product, and Research, defining repeatable deployment playbooks and reference architectures for a fast-moving customer segment.

OpenAI

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level · manages people
• Permanent

Lead and scale a customer-facing Applied AI Engineering team focused on early-stage and high-growth startups, coaching engineers through first production deployments, competitive evaluations and migrations. Balances team leadership with hands-on technical strategy across APIs, AI/ML systems and deployment, partnering with Sales, Product and Research to build repeatable playbooks and reference architectures.

OpenAI

• London
• Senior

Own the AI behaviour of production systems for public sector clients, covering agents, model integration, evaluation design and the backend services they run on. Lead delivery for a workstream, act as the technical client contact on live-data performance, and mentor other engineers.