Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

The Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. Forward Deployed Engineers lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside strategic customers, owning discovery, technical scoping, system design, and rollout. You will work at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development to drive production adoption and provide feedback that shapes product roadmaps.

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, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early
• Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery
• Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it
• Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use
• Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve

Required skills

• Python
• JavaScript
• Full-stack development
• LLMs
• Generative models
• System design
• Customer-facing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

About the Company

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