OpenAI· B2B Applications· San Francisco
Machine Learning Engineer, API Multicloud
Comp$295K – $445K
Classified Tasks (18)
Automate 0%Augment 67%Human-Only 33%
Augment (12)
AI assists, human decides
Build and improve AI systems that help strategic partners adapt OpenAI models to cloud-native environments.
technical
Work on post-training workflows, evaluation, data pipelines, model behavior, and API/infrastructure integration.
technical
Help teams understand what is and isn’t working in model performance and deployment.
communication
Diagnose issues in training and evaluation workflows.
analytical
Turn learnings from diagnostics into improvements to the underlying platform.
operational
Diagnose failure modes in deployed models and workflows.
analytical
Build and scale production ML systems for model customization, post-training, and fine-tuning-as-a-service workflows.
technical
Investigate whether training and customization workflows are producing the intended outcomes.
analytical
Identify changes to data, evaluation, training, or infrastructure that improve model performance.
analytical
Partner with backend and infrastructure engineers to integrate ML capabilities into AWS-native API environments.
technical
Propose and implement improvements to post-training systems, tooling, APIs, and developer workflows based on partner deployments.
operational
Debug and improve complex systems spanning model behavior, training data, APIs, distributed infrastructure, and customer-facing product surfaces.
technical
Human-Only (6)
Requires human judgment
Partner with strategic customers and internal teams to define target model behaviors.
communication
Translate real-world partner needs into training, evaluation, and system requirements.
communication
Work closely with Research and Applied teams to bring model improvements, training workflows, and evaluation best practices into production.
communication
Help design systems that allow strategic partners and enterprise customers to safely customize OpenAI models for high-value use cases.
technical
Operate with high ownership in a 0→1 environment where requirements are ambiguous, systems are evolving quickly, and reliability matters.
leadership
Collaborate closely with Research, Applied, Safety Systems, infrastructure teams, and external technical partners to solve ambiguous model-performance problems.
leadership
Job description
Machine Learning Engineer, API Multicloud | OpenAI Careers ## Machine Learning Engineer, API Multicloud B2B Applications - San Francisco Apply now(opens in a new window) ## **About the Team** OpenAI’s API Multicloud team sits within B2B Applications and 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 partnership with Amazon and internal teams across Codex, Research, Safety Systems, and Applied. The team is focused on bringing core developer and enterprise capabilities into cloud-native environments, including AWS-hosted Codex, model customization / post-training as a service, and new stateful runtime environments for agentic workloads. This work sits at the intersection of production ML systems, developer platforms, model behavior, and large-scale infrastructure. ## **About the Role** We’re hiring Machine Learning Engineers to build and improve the AI systems that help strategic partners adapt OpenAI models to important use cases in cloud-native environments. This role spans post-training workflows, evaluation, data pipelines, model behavior, and API/infrastructure integration. You’ll work at the boundary between partner needs and core ML systems: helping teams understand what is and isn’t working, diagnosing issues in training and evaluation workflows, and turning those learnings into improvements to the underlying platform. You’ll collaborate closely with Research, Applied, Safety Systems, infrastructure teams, and external technical partners to solve ambiguous model-performance problems. When you succeed, strategic partners and internal teams will be able to improve model behavior with confidence, driving measurable product improvements while the systems behind that work become more reliable, scalable, and effective over time. ## **In this role, you will** * 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. * 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. ## **Your background might look something like:** * Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. * 7+ years of professional engineering experience in relevant ML, infrastructure, or product-driven engineering roles. * Strong ML engineering experience building, training, fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying production AI systems, with hands-on experience in deep learning, transformer models, and frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. * Familiarity with training and fine-tuning large language models, including methods like supe