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Forward Deployed Engineer - UK

The OpenAI Deployment Company· Engineering
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Hybrid (UK)£90k - £150kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role focused on leading design, build, and deployment of enterprise AI systems for DeployCo, OpenAI's deployment arm. Senior technical owner across customer engagements, shaping architecture, establishing engineering standards, and turning prototypes into durable production AI systems. Hybrid UK-based role with customer travel as needed.

Responsibilities

  • Lead software engineering workstreams for customer deployments, owning architecture, implementation quality, evaluation strategy, and production readiness for LLM-powered systems.
  • Build AI applications, agents, and workflow tools using LLMs, retrieval, orchestration, APIs, data systems, and production software practices.
  • Guide engineers through ambiguous technical problems, reviewing designs, code, tradeoffs, and operating assumptions.
  • Work directly with customer technical teams and business stakeholders to translate workflows into reliable AI systems.
  • Prototype quickly, identify reusable components, and harden successful patterns into reference architectures and implementation assets.
  • Design evaluation and monitoring approaches to improve quality, reliability, safety, and customer trust.
  • Surface field insights to Product and Research, aligning deployment reality with roadmap priorities and model/system improvements.

Qualifications

  • Bring senior software engineering experience building production applications and microservices, including APIs, scalable data pipelines, data systems, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Expertise in Python and SQL to design and build robust data applications in enterprise environments.
  • Production LLM experience, including leading teams delivering generative AI systems with hands-on understanding in agents, retrieval, evaluation, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and model integration.
  • Led software engineering projects from prototype to production with ability to set high-quality standards while moving teams quickly.
  • Hands-on player-coach: writing code, reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, and owning customer outcomes.
  • Strong communication with executive, product, research, customer, and engineering audiences when decisions involve risk or ambiguity.
  • Ability to make disciplined standardization-versus-customization decisions.
  • Ability to operate calmly under pressure and turn deployment problems into reusable engineering patterns.

Skills

Required:Software engineeringPythonSQLLLM / Generative AIArchitecture & designCommunication
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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