OpenAI

Forward Deployed Engineer - Madrid (Spanish-speaking)

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14 hours ago
Madrid, SpainSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery across multiple customer deployments from prototype to stable production.
  • Lead discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout.
  • Embed with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of delivered systems.
  • Scope work, sequence delivery, remove blockers, and balance scope, speed, and quality.
  • Contribute directly to production code across frontend and backend systems when needed.
  • Codify successful patterns into tools, playbooks, and reusable building blocks.
  • Share deployment feedback with Research and Product to inform model and product improvements.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, including customer-facing work.
  • Professional fluency in Spanish and English.
  • 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.
  • Strong judgment, communication, risk identification, and decision-making skills under pressure.

Benefits

  • Madrid-based hybrid work model with three days in the office per week.
  • 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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