OpenAI

Forward Deployed Engineer - Seoul

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3 months ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from prototype through stable production.
  • Lead discovery, technical scoping, system design, implementation, and production rollout with strategic customers.
  • Build full-stack systems and contribute directly to code when needed.
  • Embed with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption.
  • Scope work, sequence delivery, remove blockers, and balance scope, speed, and quality.
  • Codify successful working patterns into tools, playbooks, and reusable building blocks.
  • Share field feedback with Research and Product to inform model and product improvements.

Requirements

  • At least 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 technologies.
  • Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models, with an understanding of how model behavior affects product experience.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.
  • Strong judgment, risk identification, decision-making, and execution under pressure.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in the Seoul office per week.
  • Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.
  • Approximately 50% travel is expected.

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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