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Deployment Lead (DL), FDE - Singapore

OpenAI· Forward Deployed Engineering
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Hybrid (Singapore)Full-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Founding role in OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team in Singapore focused on delivering complex systems to customers. Owns end-to-end delivery, embeds with customer teams, translates business objectives into technical plans, and drives 0→1 prototypes to MVP and scale. Hybrid work model with relocation assistance.

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.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership.
  • Track record of leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements, ideally involving AI.
  • Excel in high ambiguity environments and simplify complex/dynamic work.
  • Ability to operate from system-level to execution-level detail; map constraints and sketch architectures.
  • Strategic thinking with pattern recognition and ability to connect customer needs to scalable solutions.
  • Strong technical fluency, sequencing instincts, and comfort discussing technical trade-offs.
  • Shipped AI/LLM systems with understanding of solution patterns, integration basics, and production pitfalls.
  • Translator with executive presence able to communicate complex trade-offs to business leaders.
  • Onsite customer presence to accelerate delivery (often 25-50%), with expertise in at least one major sector (e.g., healthcare, energy, financial services, semiconductors, IT).

Skills

Required:Customer-facing technical delivery leadershipProgram and project managementSystems thinking and architectureStakeholder management and executive communication

Benefits

  • relocation assistance
  • Hybrid work model (3 days in office per week)
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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