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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Financial Services- NYC

OpenAI· Forward Deployed Engineering
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Hybrid (New York City)Full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer to lead end-to-end deployments of OpenAI’s models inside financial services organizations, focusing on correctness, latency, explainability, and control. Hybrid NYC role with relocation support and up to 50% travel.

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship production AI systems around models, owning integrations, data flows, reliability, observability, and on-call readiness across financial workflows.
  • Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-production, translating ambiguous business problems into hypothesis-driven problem framing, system requirements, and delivery plans with measurable outcomes.
  • Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated financial environments, including controls, audit artifacts, evaluation benchmarks, and acceptance thresholds tied to risk and performance.
  • Build in sensitive data environments where access controls, data lineage, explainability, and failure modes shape architecture and operating procedures.
  • Run evaluation loops that measure model and system quality against workflow-specific financial benchmarks (e.g., accuracy, latency, coverage, false positives) and use results to drive iteration.
  • Own delivery state across multiple workstreams, making trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality to protect production outcomes.
  • Distill deployment learnings into hardened primitives, reference architectures, playbooks, and tooling that scale across financial institutions.
  • Surface field feedback that informs model behavior, product capabilities, and platform gaps in real-world financial use cases.

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 financial workflows such as research, trading, risk, compliance, underwriting, operations, or investment processes.
  • Write and review production-grade code across backend and frontend systems using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
  • Experience deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models and understanding of model behavior, evaluation, and guardrails.
  • Clear communication across engineering, product, risk, compliance, and executive stakeholders; ability to translate technical trade-offs into decisions.

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
  • 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 additional paid company office closures
  • 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 support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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