Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC

OpenAI
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 162,000 - 280,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Systems thinking","High execution standards","Stakeholder management","Calm under high-stakes situations"]

Embed with law firms and legal teams to identify high-value legal use cases for AI, rapidly prototype solutions, and drive production adoption. Build full-stack systems that deliver measurable value while turning customer workflows and constraints into actionable product feedback. Contribute directly across backend and frontend, deploying LLM-powered systems with guardrails and evaluation to improve trust, risk posture, and outcomes. Hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York City.

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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC

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Job Summary

Embed with law firms and legal teams to identify high-value legal use cases for AI, rapidly prototype solutions, and drive production adoption. Build full-stack systems that deliver measurable value while turning customer workflows and constraints into actionable product feedback. Contribute directly across backend and frontend, deploying LLM-powered systems with guardrails and evaluation to improve trust, risk posture, and outcomes. Hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York City.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Embed with law firms and legal teams to understand workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and select initial use cases.
  • ā€¢Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and improve how the team learns.
  • ā€¢Own technical work from discovery and proof of concept through production adoption, guiding customer teams through adoption.
  • ā€¢Contribute directly in code when delivery depends on it and codify patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks.
  • ā€¢Share field feedback to help Research and Product understand model performance, failures, and opportunities for improvement.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

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

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or adjacent regulated industries.
  • ā€¢Experience with legal technology or compliance-heavy, regulated workflows is helpful.
  • ā€¢Owned complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end, from scoping through production adoption, where errors have real financial or regulatory impact.
  • ā€¢Write and review production-grade code across backend and frontend systems using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
  • ā€¢Deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models, understanding model behavior, evaluation, and guardrails to support user trust and business outcomes.
Experience:5+ yearsFinancial servicesRegulated industriesLegal technologyAI systemsLLM deployments
Skills:CommunicationSystems thinkingHigh execution standardsStakeholder managementCalm under high-stakes situations
Tech Stack:PythonJavaScriptLLMsGenerative modelsBackendFrontendEvaluationGuardrailsFull-stack

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·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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