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Forward Deployed Engineer - US

The OpenAI Deployment Company
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Hybrid (San Francisco; New York City)$170k - $400kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer leading technical and business value outcomes for high-stakes customer deployments, with potential to grow into management and help shape DeployCo’s deployment approach and tools.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the technical lead for customer engagements, owning problems end-to-end from definition to resolution
  • Operate with strong agency, delivering outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and high technical quality
  • Guide deployment strategy and help define DeployCo’s operating model for swift, safe execution
  • Define and build deployment primitives that increase both customer impact and engagement velocity
  • Operate as a player-coach, setting a high bar for execution while helping grow the team through direct, actionable feedback
  • Codify successful patterns into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage for DeployCo
  • Identify early signals and escalate them with urgency—whether in product behavior, customer environments, or delivery practices

Qualifications

  • Bring 4+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience
  • 0→1 experience building reusable capabilities under ambiguity, and can make disciplined standardization-versus-customization decisions
  • Have led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production
  • Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using JavaScript or Python
  • Simplify complex work and make fast, sound decisions under pressure
  • Elevate team performance through clarity rather than process overhead
  • Operate with urgency in ambiguous or evolving environments
  • Translate field experience into clear, actionable feedback for Product and Research
  • Build deep trust with teammates by modeling calm, focus, and strong judgment when it matters most

Skills

Required:Engineering or technical delivery experienceFrontend and backend development
Nice to have:Leadership / team growth
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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OpenAI’s forward deployed engineering brings AI into production—partnering with teams to solve high-impact problems and build scalable systems.

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