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Ryan Willis

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Senior AI Engineer at OpenAI
📍 United States

Ryan is a Senior AI Engineer at OpenAI with over 10 years of experience building production-grade AI systems. His expertise spans generative AI, LLMs, and NLP, with a background from the University of North Texas. He has a proven track record of translating advanced AI into business-critical applications.

His career is distinguished by applying AI under high-reliability, safety-critical constraints in both frontier generative AI and aerospace at SpaceX.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Senior AI Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
United States
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AI in Healthcare
Currently contributes to Healthcare GPT at OpenAI, focusing on applying large language models to clinical knowledge retrieval, medical reasoning, and augmenting healthcare workflows.
Safety-Critical AI
Led development of real-time AI systems for mission-critical aerospace operations and telemetry analysis under strict reliability constraints during his tenure at SpaceX.
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Career

Work history

5-2024
Senior AI Engineer
OpenAI
11-2020 - 3-2024
Senior AI Full Stack Engineer
SpaceX
1-2018 - 10-2020
AI / Machine Learning Engineer
SpaceX
8-2015 - 11-2017
Data Scientist
IBM
4-2014 - 7-2015
Software Engineer (Data & AI Systems)
IBM
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Education
2018 - 2020
Master's Degree
University of North Texas
2009 - 2013
Bachelor's degree
University of North Texas
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