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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC

OpenAI· Forward Deployed Engineering
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Hybrid (New York City)$185k - $300k + equityFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer to build and deploy AI systems for legal work, embedding with customers to identify high-value use cases, prototype solutions, and drive production adoption in legal workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with law firms and legal teams to understand their workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and select the right initial use cases to prove value.
  • Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn
  • Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build
  • Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery
  • Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it
  • Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use
  • Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or adjacent regulated industries
  • Experience with legal technology, legal services, compliance-heavy workflows, or professional services (helpful but not required)
  • Owned complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end, from scoping through production adoption, in high-stakes environments
  • Proficient in production-grade code across backend and frontend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
  • Experience deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models with understanding of model behavior, evaluation, and guardrails
  • Strong cross-functional communication with engineering, product, risk, compliance, and executives
  • Ability to apply systems thinking and establish repeatable deployment patterns
  • Calm, decisive under urgent, ambiguous, high-stakes delivery conditions

Skills

Required:Software engineeringFrontend and backend developmentAI/LLM deploymentstakeholder communication

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
  • 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 paid company office closures
  • 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 offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation assistance
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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