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AI Deployment Engineer, Startups

Tokyo, Japan💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Technical thought partner guiding strategic startup customers to build, prototype, and scale novel Generative AI applications on the OpenAI API.

Role type

Senior IC AI Deployment Engineer (Startups)

Builds

Production-ready GenAI applications and prototypes for early-stage startups

Domain

Generative AI / Large Language Models (LLMs) / Startup Ecosystem

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Python, JavaScript, AI/LLM best practices, end-to-end problem ownership, rapid prototyping, startup ecosystem navigation

Preferred skills

Founder or founding engineer experience, ability to synthesize feedback for product teams

Technologies

OpenAI API

Responsibilities

Partner with startups from ideation to scale, experiment and prototype alongside customers, contribute to open-source resources and best practices, synthesize feedback for Product and Research teams, build relationships within the startup community

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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