Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead end-to-end deployments of OpenAI models inside life sciences organizations and research institutions, across drug discovery and development. You will translate real-world data, infrastructure and constraints into production systems, run evaluation loops, and deliver in regulated contexts with audit readiness. The role is hybrid in San Francisco with up to 50% travel.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software
- Experience owning customer GenAI deployments end-to-end
- Experience delivering AI systems in trial design, regulatory writing, or scientific operations
- Clear communication across scientific, clinical, research, technical and executive audiences
- Systems thinking with high execution standards
Responsibilities
- Design and ship production systems around models, owning integrations, data provenance, reliability, and on-call readiness
- Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-sales
- Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated contexts
- Build in sensitive scientific data environments with auditability, validation and access controls
- Run evaluation loops measuring model and system quality against scientific benchmarks
- Distill deployment learnings into hardened primitives, reference architectures, validation templates and benchmark harnesses
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid life and disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices
- Relocation assistance
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
