Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production
• Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn
• Embed closely with customer teams to understand needs and guide adoption
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early
• Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality to protect delivery
• Contribute directly to code when progress or clarity depends on it
• Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks
• Share field feedback with Research and Product teams to improve models

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience including customer-facing work
• Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
• Ability to write and review production-grade code in Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
• Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models
• Strong communication skills with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders
• Ability to travel up to 50%

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.