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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Seattle

Seattle (Remote)$185k–$300kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

OpenAI seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead end-to-end production deployments of frontier AI models with strategic customers in Seattle. You'll own technical scoping, system design, and rollout while partnering with customer teams and feeding insights back to product and research.

What you'll do

  • Lead complete technical delivery from prototype through stable production across multiple customer deployments
  • Build full-stack systems that integrate LLMs and measure workflow impact in customer environments
  • Embed with customer teams to understand needs, guide adoption, and gather field feedback on model performance
  • Scope work, sequence delivery, remove blockers, and make tradeoffs between scope, speed, and quality
  • Contribute hands-on code when needed to unblock progress; document patterns into reusable tools and playbooks
  • Share customer insights with Research and Product teams to inform model and feature roadmaps

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing work
  • Production-grade coding in Python, JavaScript, or equivalent full-stack technologies
  • Experience building or deploying LLM-powered or generative AI systems
  • System design and scoping of complex projects in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • Clear communication with engineers, product teams, and non-technical stakeholders
  • Risk identification and decision-making under pressure
  • Problem-solving and complexity simplification

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model (3 days per week in Seattle office)
  • Relocation assistance provided
  • Work at the forefront of AI model deployment and research impact
  • Direct collaboration with OpenAI's Product, Research, and Leadership teams
  • Opportunity to shape production AI systems for strategic customers
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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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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a complex system you deployed end-to-end with customers; how did you handle ambiguity and scope changes?
  • Describe your experience building or deploying LLM-powered systems. What surprised you about model behavior in production?
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