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Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC

New York City (Remote)$153k–$325kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

OpenAI seeks an experienced full-stack engineer to embed with strategic customers and build production systems using OpenAI's APIs. You'll design custom solutions, lead technical implementations alongside customers, and provide feedback to shape product development.

What you'll do

  • Partner with strategic customers to understand business challenges and technical needs
  • Design and develop full-stack solutions using iterative, experiment-driven approaches
  • Prepare scopes of work and project plans for POCs and production deployments
  • Code alongside customer technical teams as a trusted technical advisor
  • Collaborate with Product, Research, and Applied teams on customer feedback and project success
  • Document best practices and insights to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function

What they're looking for

  • Full-stack software engineering (7+ years professional experience)
  • Relational databases (Postgres/MySQL)
  • Customer-facing technical delivery
  • Full-stack web development
  • Solution architecture and design
  • Iterative product development
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • API integration and implementation

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model (3 days/week in NYC office)
  • Relocation assistance provided
  • Work with cutting-edge AI technology and APIs
  • Direct collaboration with OpenAI's research and product teams
  • Exposure to diverse strategic customer challenges
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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

  • Walk us through a time you embedded deeply with a customer to understand their technical requirements. How did you translate their business challenges into a technical solution?
  • Describe your experience building full-stack solutions using OpenAI's APIs or similar LLM integrations. What were the key technical decisions you made?
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