OpenAI

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF

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Base Salary

$185k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery for semiconductor and AI-infrastructure workstreams from scoping and prototypes through validation, production deployment, and adoption.
  • Partner with customer engineers to define workflows, workloads, baselines, constraints, and success criteria.
  • Scope and sequence delivery, manage dependencies and blockers, and balance scope, speed, and quality.
  • Build and debug production-quality software, harnesses, integrations, and product features for chip design, verification, inference, and performance engineering.
  • Design reproducible experiments, evaluations, graders, and benchmarks to validate correctness and performance.
  • Investigate model behavior and failure modes and contribute evaluation or training data and targeted experiments.
  • Contribute to core product development and resolve tooling gaps with product engineers.
  • Lead technical discussions across customer, product, and research teams and communicate capabilities, limitations, risks, and next steps.
  • Turn successful approaches into reusable software, tools, and playbooks for future engagements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
  • Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
  • Ability to write and review production-grade software and debug unfamiliar systems across code, integrations, and runtime behavior.
  • Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
  • Hands-on experience with applied machine learning, model evaluation, data quality, experimentation, or model-behavior analysis.
  • Ability to create clear evaluations, credible baselines, and reproducible experiments from ambiguous technical problems.
  • Strong communication, product sense, judgment, and ability to work with researchers, product engineers, customer engineers, and stakeholders.
  • Experience in semiconductor development, data-center systems, or inference engineering is helpful.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days per week in the San Francisco office.
  • Relocation assistance is offered.
  • Up to 50% travel is required.

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Forward Deployed
OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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