OpenAI

Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle

OpenAI
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7 months ago

Base Salary

$153k - $325k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements
  • Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an iterative, experiment-driven approach
  • Prepare scopes of work and project plans for proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments
  • Code alongside customers' technical teams and act as a technical expert and trusted advisor on their infrastructure
  • Collaborate with Product, Research, Applied, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, and Customer Success teams
  • Contribute customer insights, best practices, and knowledge-base content to scale Forward Deployed Engineering

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience in relevant roles, excluding internships
  • Customer-facing experience is highly desirable
  • Experience with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
  • Former founder or early startup engineer who built a product from scratch is a plus
  • Willingness to work iteratively with customers and deliver solutions to their problems

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in the Seattle office per week
  • Relocation assistance
  • Up to 50% travel required

Tech Stack

Categories

Forward DeployedFull Stack
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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