# AI Deployment Engineer, Startups

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Tokyo, Japan
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, Generative AI, LLMs, OpenAI API, Ai Prototyping, Open-Source Software
**Posted:** 2026-08-04

> Partners with strategic startups to design, prototype, deliver, and scale generative AI applications, providing technical guidance and product feedback. Requires 5+ years of software or ML engineering experience, Python and JavaScript proficiency, AI/LLM expertise, and fluency in Japanese and English.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner with strategic startup customers as their technical thought partner to build novel applications on the API, helping them 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 Product and Research teams.
- Build relationships within the startup ecosystem, serving as a technical partner to individual customers and the broader community.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ML engineer, or equivalent, ideally in a startup environment.
- Passion for startups and belief in their potential to become future large enterprises.
- Proficiency in Python and JavaScript, with a strong grasp of AI/LLM best practices.
- Experience building and/or delivering prototypes on an API platform.
- Ability to identify opportunities to maximize customer business value through an API.
- Ability to own problems end-to-end and acquire missing knowledge as needed.
- Humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and commitment to team success.
- Ability to drive multiple concurrent projects and prioritize effectively.
- Fluency in Japanese and English.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience as a founder or founding engineer.

## Benefits
- Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week.
- Relocation assistance for new employees.

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