Forward Deployed Engineer Financial Services
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 production AI systems in financial-services environments. You will translate workflows and regulatory requirements into system requirements, integrations, evaluations, launch controls, and delivery plans. You will build reliable systems, manage delivery trade-offs, and turn deployment learnings into reusable architectures, tools, and playbooks.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or regulated industries
- Experience owning complex AI or data-driven systems through production adoption
- Experience with financial workflows such as research, trading, risk, compliance, underwriting, operations, or investment processes
- Production-grade backend and frontend coding experience using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
- Experience deploying LLM or generative-model systems
- Knowledge of model evaluation and guardrails
Responsibilities
- Design and ship production AI systems, including integrations, data flows, reliability, observability, and on-call readiness
- Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-production
- Define and enforce launch criteria, controls, audit artifacts, benchmarks, and acceptance thresholds
- Build in sensitive data environments with access controls, data lineage, explainability, and failure-mode considerations
- Run evaluation loops against financial benchmarks
- Own delivery across multiple workstreams
- Distill deployment learnings into reusable architectures, playbooks, and tooling
- Surface field feedback that informs model behavior and product capabilities
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO or up to 15 days of annual PTO, depending on exemption status
- Paid company holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided