Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SF

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 153,000 - 325,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Customer-facing","Team-work"]

Customer-facing software engineer on OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team, designing and implementing scalable custom software that leverages OpenAI APIs to solve real customer problems. You’ll embed with strategic customers, collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Research, and drive proofs-of-concept to production deployments, while codifying best practices and shaping the product feedback loop. Hybrid work in San Francisco with relocation assistance and up to 50% travel.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
9 months ago

Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SF

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Job Summary

Customer-facing software engineer on OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team, designing and implementing scalable custom software that leverages OpenAI APIs to solve real customer problems. You’ll embed with strategic customers, collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Research, and drive proofs-of-concept to production deployments, while codifying best practices and shaping the product feedback loop. Hybrid work in San Francisco with relocation assistance and up to 50% travel.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail.
  • •Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach.
  • •Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments.
  • •Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure.
  • •Collaborate with Product, Research and Applied teams to ensure seamless customer experiences, project success and actionable product feedback
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 153,000 - 325,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of professional full stack engineering experience (excluding internships) in tech and product-driven companies; experience is customer-facing is highly desirable
  • •Former founder or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus
  • •Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
  • •Have a bias for action and willingness to iterate with customers to deliver the right solution
  • •Excellent collaboration with cross-functional teams (Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Research) and ability to design abstractions to scale delivery
Experience:7+ yearsAISaaSEnterprise software
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingCustomer-facingTeam-work
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PostgreSQLMySQLAPIsOpenAI APIFull-stackFrontendBackend

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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