Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC

OpenAI
New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 153,000 - 325,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Customer-facing","Teamwork"]

Customer-focused software engineer role building custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. You’ll design scalable full-stack solutions, embed with strategic customers, and collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Product teams to deliver production deployments while codifying best practices for scale.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
8 months ago

Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC

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Job Summary

Customer-focused software engineer role building custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. You’ll design scalable full-stack solutions, embed with strategic customers, and collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Product teams to deliver production deployments while codifying best practices for scale.
Location: New York
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: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

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

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of professional full stack engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies; customer-facing experience is highly desirable
  • •Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
  • •Former founder or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus
  • •Strong ability to design abstractions and work iteratively with customers to deliver scalable solutions
  • •Bias for action and willingness to work hands-on with customers to deliver the right solution
Experience:7+ yearsEnterprise softwareCustomer-facing
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingCustomer-facingTeamwork
Tech Stack:PostgreSQLMySQLAPIsFull-stackOpenAI API

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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