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Benedict Kerres
Benedict Kerres works on applied AI at OpenAI, helping developers build and evaluate AI systems. His earlier work spans autonomous robotics at Auterion, simulation and safety tooling at Applied Intuition, and AI deployment at Palantir.
- Based in
- Munich
- Elsewhere
OpenAI
Apr 2025 — Present
Applied AI
Part of OpenAI’s founding team in Germany; teaches developers to build retrieval-augmented systems and evaluate answer quality.
Auterion
Sep 2024 — Apr 2025
Engineering
Worked on autonomous fixed-wing robots.
Applied Intuition
Jan 2024 — Jul 2024Engineering
Worked on simulation, safety tooling, and multimodal data storage and retrieval.
Palantir Technologies
Jan 2021 — Dec 2023
Engineering
Built AI and optimization solutions across finance, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing in Europe and Korea; work spanned engineering, product, pre-sales and delivery.
BASF
Sep 2019 — Jan 2021Top Start Management Program | Product
Heidelberg University
Nov 2017 — Aug 2019Research Fellow
Mercedes-Benz AG
Nov 2017 — Nov 2018Computer Vision Research Engineer - Fellow
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