Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 302,000 - 335,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Lead and grow OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team to deliver production systems with frontier models, driving end-to-end technical and business value for high-stakes customer deployments. Collaborate with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM to influence roadmaps, scale delivery, and codify learnings into tools and playbooks while maintaining high performance under pressure.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
6 months ago

Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead and grow OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team to deliver production systems with frontier models, driving end-to-end technical and business value for high-stakes customer deployments. Collaborate with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM to influence roadmaps, scale delivery, and codify learnings into tools and playbooks while maintaining high performance under pressure.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models
  • •Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality
  • •Codify what works into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage for both OpenAI and our wider developer community
  • •Notice early indicators and raise them with urgency, whether in product behavior, customer environments, or delivery practices
  • •Use judgement to distinguish what requires action and what does not
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 302,000 - 335,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Relocation

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or customer-facing engineers
Experience:8+ yearsAIEnterprise software
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:JavaScriptPython

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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