OpenAI

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SF

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2 months ago

Base Salary

$162k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with law firms and legal teams to understand workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and select initial use cases.
  • Build and deploy full-stack AI systems that deliver customer value.
  • Own technical delivery from discovery and proof of concept through production adoption.
  • Guide customer teams through adoption of deployed solutions.
  • Balance scope, speed, and quality to protect delivery outcomes.
  • Contribute directly to production code when needed.
  • Codify successful deployment patterns into tools, playbooks, and reusable building blocks.
  • Share customer and field feedback with Research and Product teams to improve model performance and products.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or adjacent regulated industries.
  • Experience owning complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end, from scoping through production adoption, in high-stakes environments.
  • Production-grade coding experience across backend and frontend systems using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
  • Experience deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models, including understanding of model behavior, evaluation, and guardrails.
  • Ability to communicate technical trade-offs across engineering, product, risk, compliance, and executive stakeholders.
  • Systems thinking and experience turning incidents, escalations, and failures into improved operating standards and repeatable deployment patterns.
  • Experience with legal technology, legal services, compliance-heavy workflows, or professional services is helpful but not required.
  • Ability to operate decisively in urgent, ambiguous, and high-stakes delivery environments.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring three days per week in the office.
  • Role based in San Francisco or New York City.
  • Relocation assistance offered.
  • Up to 50% travel may be required.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

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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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