Api Engineer in London

SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: As an ideal candidate you have a good understanding of how highly scalable and reliable production infrastructure is built. Most of our backend infrastructure is written in Rust. So familiarity with a compiled language such as C++, Rust, or Go is highly beneficial. RESPONSIBILITIES: Build the SpaceXAI API that serves our models to developers worldwide Own the end-to-end system responsible for high-throughput inference, handling billions of tokens per minute with low latency and high availability, including model serving infrastructure, request routing, SDK development, rate limiting, observability, and efficient scaling BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Expert knowledge of either Rust or C++ Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems Knowledge of service observability and reliability best practices Experience in operating commonly used databases such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, and MongoDB PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: Experience with LLM inference engines and serving frameworks (e.g., SGLang, TensorRT, vLLM) Experience designing or building with agent SDKs and agent orchestration frameworks Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized applicatio

About the Team The Applications Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses. You’ll join the team responsible for running the core infrastructure that supports products like ChatGPT and the API. The systems we support include our kubernetes clusters, infrastructure deployment, our networking stack, cloud abstractions, and more. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role The cloud infrastructure team builds and maintains infrastructure abstractions allowing OpenAI to ship products quickly and scalably. In this role, you will: Design and build the development and production platforms that power our products, enabling reliability and security at scale Ensure our infrastructure can scale to the next order of magnitude Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 5+ years building core infrastructure Have experience operating orchestration systems such as Kubernetes at scale Have experience building abstractions over cloud platforms Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change 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

About the Team The Applied AI team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. As the leader of our ADEs in the Large Enterprise segment, you’ll help companies transform their business through solutions such as customer service, automated content generation, and novel applications that make use of our newest, most exciting models. About the Role We are seeking an Applied AI Engineering leader to ensure the technical success of our most strategic Large Enterprise customers across EMEA. In this role, you will manage the entire implementation journey, ensuring seamless platform integration. As the voice of our customers, you will align technical teams to deliver a consistent and exceptional experience throughout the customer lifecycle. Success will be measured by live production applications, increased API adoption, and impactful customer stories that demonstrate the value of our technology. This role is open in both our London and Munich offices. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Own the strategy and operating model of the Large Enterprise Applied AI team, ensuring alignment with company objectives and the evolving needs of our customers. Lead, build, and mentor a team of high-performing ADEs to deliver exceptional customer outcomes, as demonstrated by production customer applications and increased API adoption. Serve as the technical advocate for our customers, synthesizing their needs to develop the Research and Applied Product/Engineering roadmaps. Act as the primary technical escalation point during development, fostering trust and maintaining direct communication with executive-level

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role We’re looking for a Solutions Architect to help build and define this function at Synthesia. This is a critical role - you’ll shape how we partner with customers to drive adoption, value, and measurable business impact.You ’ll work across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to design solutions that unlock value at scale. This is not just implementation - it’s about architecting customer success , proving what’s possible, and accelerating customers toward full platform maturity.You will be both strategic advisor and technical architect , helping customers: Make the right technical decisions Deploy the product and integrations successfully Operationalize change and scale Connect use cases to business outcomes This role blends technical hands-on depth, commercial awareness, executive influence, and platform thinking. What you’ll do Lead customer implementations end-to-end , ensuring adoption, measurable outcomes, and long-term scalability. Design architectures that map Synthesia’s capabilities to high-value customer use cases . Partner with Sales on solution scoping, proposals, API demos, and deal strategy . Build proofs of concept to demonstrate the art of the possible and accelerate c

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role We’re looking for a Solutions Architect to help build and define this function at Synthesia. This is a critical role - you’ll shape how we partner with customers to drive adoption, value, and measurable business impact.You’ll work across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to design solutions that unlock value at scale. This is not just implementation - it’s about architecting customer success , proving what’s possible, and accelerating customers toward full platform maturity.You will be both strategic advisor and technical architect , helping customers: Make the right technical decisions Deploy the product and integrations successfully Operationalize change and scale Connect use cases to business outcomes This role blends technical hands-on depth, commercial awareness, executive influence, and platform thinking. What you’ll do Lead customer implementations end-to-end , ensuring adoption, measurable outcomes, and long-term scalability. Design architectures that map Synthesia’s capabilities to high-value customer use cases . Partner with Sales on solution scoping, proposals, API demos, and deal strategy . Build proofs of concept to demonstrate the art of the possible and accelerate cu

We're looking for a Senior Business Development Representative to join us in a high-impact commercial role at the forefront of Voice AI. You’ll play a critical part in driving pipeline growth across enterprise and mid-market accounts, working with a genuinely differentiated API product used by technical buyers globally. You’ll operate in a fast-scaling environment, partnering closely with account executives and engaging with senior stakeholders. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong sales instincts with a structured, data-driven approach and is motivated to grow within one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving areas of the tech industry. What you’ll be doing: Building and managing pipeline across a defined territory Identifying and targeting enterprise and mid-market accounts Conducting outbound prospecting using multi-channel approaches (email, phone, LinkedIn) Qualifying inbound and outbound leads to create high-quality opportunities Partnering closely with Account Executives to progress and convert opportunities Tailoring messaging to both technical and commercial stakeholders Using tools like Salesforce, sequencing platforms, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator to manage activity and performance Leveraging AI tools to research accounts and personalise outreach Who we are looking for: Demonstrated success hitting or exceeding targets, with clear evidence of performance and impact Brings a methodical, organised approach to territory management and pipeline building Able to confidently engage both technical buyers (e.g. CTOs) and business leaders with tailored messaging Comfortable selling complex or intangible products such as APIs, platforms, or developer tools Ambitious, coachable, and motivated to develop into more senior commercial roles as the company scales We encourage you to apply even if you do not feel you match all of the requirements exactly. The list of requirements is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we’re looking for,