Forward Deployed Software 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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will work closely with strategic customers to understand requirements and build scalable full-stack software. You will prepare project scopes and plans, work hands-on with customer technical teams, share product feedback, and document practices that improve future customer engagements.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience
- Customer-facing engineering experience
- Relational database experience
- Postgres or MySQL experience
Responsibilities
- Embed with strategic customers to understand business challenges and technical requirements
- Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions
- Prepare scopes of work and project plans for prototypes and production deployments
- Work hands-on with customer technical teams to deliver projects
- Collaborate with Product, Research, and Applied teams
- Contribute best practices and customer insights to internal knowledge bases
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO or up to 15 days of annual PTO, depending on employee classification
- 13+ paid holidays and paid office closures
- Paid 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