Forward Deployed Engineer - EU

The OpenAI Deployment Company
Paris
Workplace: HybridFull timeEUR 115,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentoring","Technical discovery","Clear communication","Risk handling","Problem-solving"]

Lead the design, build, and deployment of enterprise AI systems for customer engagements, acting as a senior technical owner across architecture, implementation quality, evaluation strategy, and production readiness for LLM-powered workflows. Build agentic AI applications using LLMs, retrieval, orchestration, APIs, and data systems. Mentor engineers, review designs and tradeoffs, translate field learnings into reusable platform patterns, and establish evaluation/monitoring for quality, reliability, safety, and trust.

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The OpenAI Deployment Company
The OpenAI Deployment Company
2 months ago

Forward Deployed Engineer - EU

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Job Summary

Lead the design, build, and deployment of enterprise AI systems for customer engagements, acting as a senior technical owner across architecture, implementation quality, evaluation strategy, and production readiness for LLM-powered workflows. Build agentic AI applications using LLMs, retrieval, orchestration, APIs, and data systems. Mentor engineers, review designs and tradeoffs, translate field learnings into reusable platform patterns, and establish evaluation/monitoring for quality, reliability, safety, and trust.
Location: Paris
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

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, and data systems.
  • •Guide engineers through ambiguous technical problems by reviewing designs, code, tradeoffs, and operating assumptions.
  • •Collaborate directly with customer technical teams and business stakeholders to translate workflows into reliable AI systems.
  • •Prototype quickly, harden reusable patterns into reference architectures, and design evaluation and monitoring for quality, reliability, safety, and customer trust.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 115,000 - 200,000 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 of agents, retrieval, evaluation, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and model integration.
  • •Experience leading projects from prototype to production and setting a high-quality engineering bar.
  • •Comfort as a hands-on player-coach: writing code, reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, and owning customer outcomes.
Experience:Enterprise AILLMAgentic AIMicroservicesCloud infrastructure
Skills:MentoringTechnical discoveryClear communicationRisk handlingProblem-solving
Tech Stack:OpenAIOpenAI modelsOpenAI APIsPythonSQLLLMsRetrievalOrchestrationAPIsData systemsMicroservicesCloud infrastructurePrompt engineeringFine-tuning

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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