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Deployment Lead, Life Sciences- NYC

OpenAI· Forward Deployed Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$207k - $294kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Deployment Lead responsible for end-to-end delivery of OpenAI’s Life Sciences deployments, translating business outcomes into technical plans, coordinating across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and ensuring adoption and measurable impact for Life Sciences customers.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent workstreams. Translate business objectives into a roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
  • Run day-to-day engineering execution. Track and drive delivery across OpenAI FDE and customer teams. Keep progress unblocked and sequenced. Make real-time trade-offs on scope and priority to protect the critical path.
  • Embed with customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption. Map workflows, shape tools/integrations, and translate requirements into a delivery plan. Lead onboarding, adoption, and change management.
  • Partner with Product and Research so platform components and research workstreams land in time to support deployment goals.
  • Codify solution patterns and evals. Extract reusable patterns and package field signals to improve product and models.
  • Own value cases and ROI. Set impact hypotheses, baselines, and KPIs; run pre-/post-deployment measurement and report to exec sponsors.
  • Shape how we engage Life Sciences customers

Qualifications

  • Bring 7+ years of customer‑facing technical delivery leadership and have expertise in the Life Sciences space.
  • Track record of successfully leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements where customer outcomes depended on tight coordination and fast decision making, ideally involving AI.
  • Excel in high ambiguity environments. Know how to simplify complex and dynamic work.
  • Move fluidly between system level understanding and execution level detail; can dive into customer workflows/data, map constraints, sketch architectures and move ambiguous problems to shipped systems.
  • Think strategically and pattern-match. Able to step back from execution detail, recognise broader trends across deployments, and connect customer needs to scalable, reusable solutions.
  • Have strong technical fluency and sharp sequencing instincts. Confident discussing technical details, pressure-testing architectures, and making trade-offs.
  • Have shipped AI/LLM systems. You understand solution patterns, integration basics, and production pitfalls.
  • You’re a translator with executive presence. You make complex technical trade-offs legible to business leaders and convert strategy into day-to-day technical execution.
  • Enjoy being onsite with customers to accelerate delivery (often 25-50%, sometimes higher).

Skills

Required:Technical delivery leadershipAI/LLM systems deployment

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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