OpenAI

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF

OpenAI
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1 year ago

Base Salary

$185k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery for multiple deployments from first prototype through stable production.
  • Lead discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout with customer teams.
  • Build full-stack systems and contribute directly to production code when needed.
  • 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.
  • Codify effective working patterns into reusable tools, playbooks, or building blocks.
  • Share field feedback with Product and Research to improve models and product roadmaps.

Requirements

  • 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 stacks.
  • Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
  • Ability to make sound decisions under pressure and communicate clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.
  • Ability to identify risks early, adjust plans, and maintain calm judgment in high-stakes situations.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days per week in the San Francisco office.
  • Relocation assistance is offered.
  • Travel up to 50% is required.

Categories

Forward Deployed
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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