Forward Deployed Engineer - UK

The OpenAI Deployment Company
London, Edinburgh
Workplace: HybridFull timeGBP 90,000 - 150,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentoring","Technical leadership","Communication","Problem-solving","Ownership"]

Lead the design, build, and deployment of enterprise AI systems as a senior technical owner across customer engagements. Drive solution architecture and production readiness for LLM-powered workflows, building agentic AI applications using foundation models, OpenAI APIs, retrieval and orchestration, and robust data systems. Mentor engineers, evaluate model behavior, and set engineering standards—while translating field learnings into reusable patterns that improve quality, reliability, safety, and customer trust.

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The OpenAI Deployment Company
The OpenAI Deployment Company
2 months ago

Forward Deployed Engineer - UK

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Job Summary

Lead the design, build, and deployment of enterprise AI systems as a senior technical owner across customer engagements. Drive solution architecture and production readiness for LLM-powered workflows, building agentic AI applications using foundation models, OpenAI APIs, retrieval and orchestration, and robust data systems. Mentor engineers, evaluate model behavior, and set engineering standards—while translating field learnings into reusable patterns that improve quality, reliability, safety, and customer trust.
Location: London, Edinburgh
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key 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 by reviewing designs, code, tradeoffs, and operating assumptions.
  • •Work with customer technical teams and business stakeholders to translate workflows into reliable AI systems.
  • •Design evaluation and monitoring approaches to improve quality, reliability, safety, and customer trust; surface field insights to Product and Research.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 90,000 - 150,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •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 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, setting a high-quality bar while keeping teams moving quickly.
  • •Comfort as a hands-on player-coach: writing code, reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, and owning customer outcomes.
Experience:Enterprise softwareMicroservicesLLMGenerative AIAgentic AICloud infrastructureData pipelines
Skills:MentoringTechnical leadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingOwnership
Tech Stack:PythonSQLOpenAIOpenAI modelsAPIsLLMsRetrievalOrchestrationMicroservicesData pipelinesCloud infrastructureFine-tuningPrompt engineering

Company Brief

The OpenAI Deployment Company
OpenAI Deployment Company (DeployCo) is OpenAI’s deployment arm, built to help enterprises design, test, and run AI systems in core workflows using forward-deployed engineers. It appears to be a newly launched, subsidiary-like enterprise services venture focused on production AI adoption. ([deploy.co](https://deploy.co/?utm_source=openai))
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2026
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