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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - NYC

New York City (Remote)$162k–$280kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Lead end-to-end deployments of OpenAI's frontier models with strategic customers in NYC, owning technical discovery through production rollout. Partner with customer teams to build full-stack systems that deliver measurable impact while feeding product and research feedback.

What you'll do

  • Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from prototype to stable production
  • Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and enable learning
  • Embed with customer teams to understand needs and guide adoption
  • Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early
  • Share field feedback to inform Research and Product roadmaps
  • Codify working patterns into reusable tools and playbooks

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience
  • Production-grade code in Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
  • Complex system scoping and delivery in ambiguous environments
  • LLM or generative model systems experience
  • Full-stack development (frontend and backend)
  • Customer communication and stakeholder management
  • Risk identification and decision-making under pressure
  • Cross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model (3 days per week in NYC office)
  • Relocation assistance available
  • Direct partnership with frontier AI research and deployment
  • Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Research, and Security teams
  • Impact on product and model roadmaps
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OpenAI

OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.

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