Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 162,000 - 280,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Teamwork"]

Forward Deployed Engineers drive end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production, owning discovery, scoping, system design, build, and rollout. You’ll work closely with customer teams and internal Product/Research groups to deliver full-stack systems, measure impact, and adapt plans for speed and quality. This role requires strong customer-facing engineering, production-grade code across frontend and backend, and travel up to 50% from San Francisco.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
1 year ago

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF

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Job Summary

Forward Deployed Engineers drive end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production, owning discovery, scoping, system design, build, and rollout. You’ll work closely with customer teams and internal Product/Research groups to deliver full-stack systems, measure impact, and adapt plans for speed and quality. This role requires strong customer-facing engineering, production-grade code across frontend and backend, and travel up to 50% from San Francisco.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production
  • •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
  • •Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early
  • •Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 162,000 - 280,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work
  • •production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
  • •experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models
  • •ability to scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early
  • •willingness to travel up to 50% and work in a hybrid SF setting
Experience:5+ yearsAIMLEnterpriseSoftware
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingTeamwork
Tech Stack:PythonJavaScriptLLMsFrontendBackendProduction

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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