Forward Deployed Engineer
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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 frontier models with strategic customers. You will scope work, design and build full-stack systems, guide customer adoption, manage delivery trade-offs, and share field feedback that improves products and models.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing work
- Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in ambiguous environments
- Ability to write and review production-grade frontend and backend code
- Python, JavaScript, or comparable stack experience
- Experience building or deploying LLM or generative-model systems
Responsibilities
- Own technical delivery from prototype through stable production
- Build full-stack systems for customer deployments
- Embed with customer teams and guide adoption
- Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers
- Make delivery trade-offs across scope, speed, and quality
- Contribute production code when needed
- Codify reusable tools, playbooks, and building blocks
- Share field feedback with Research and Product
- Maintain delivery clarity and follow-through
Benefits
- Relocation assistance