OpenAI

Forward Deployed Engineer - UAE

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2 months ago
Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from initial prototype through stable production.
  • Build full-stack systems that deliver measurable customer value.
  • Embed with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of delivered solutions.
  • Scope work, sequence delivery, remove blockers, and make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality.
  • Contribute directly to production code when progress or clarity depends on it.
  • Codify working patterns into reusable tools, playbooks, and building blocks.
  • Share field feedback with Research and Product to improve model and product development.
  • Maintain clarity, pace, quality, and follow-through across internal and external workstreams.

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 frontend and backend code using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
  • Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
  • Understanding of how model behavior affects product experience.
  • Ability to make sound decisions under pressure, identify risks early, and communicate clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring 3 days in the office per week.
  • Role based in Abu Dhabi.
  • Relocation assistance is offered.
  • Travel of up to 50% is required.

Categories

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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