OpenAI

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC

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Base Salary

$162k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with law firms and legal teams to understand workflows and identify high-value initial use cases.
  • Build and deploy full-stack AI systems from prototype through production adoption.
  • Guide customer adoption and contribute directly to production code across frontend and backend systems.
  • Balance scope, speed, and quality while managing urgent and ambiguous delivery situations.
  • Turn successful deployments into reusable tools, playbooks, and building blocks.
  • Provide field feedback to Research and Product about model performance and improvement opportunities.

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 in environments with significant financial or regulatory consequences.
  • 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.
  • Experience with legal technology, legal services, compliance-heavy workflows, or professional services is helpful but not required.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days per week in the office.
  • Role based in San Francisco or New York City.
  • Relocation assistance is offered.
  • Travel of up to 50% may be required.

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OpenAI

About OpenAI

1,001-5,000 employees

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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