OpenAI
Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SF
About this role
OpenAI seeks an experienced full-stack software engineer to partner with enterprise customers, designing and deploying custom solutions leveraging OpenAI's APIs. You'll embed with strategic clients to understand their challenges, architect scalable systems, and drive projects from proof-of-concept to production while collaborating across sales, solutions, and product teams.
What you'll do
- Partner with strategic customers to understand business challenges and technical requirements in depth
- Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using iterative, experiment-driven approaches
- Prepare detailed project scopes and plans for both prototypes and production deployments
- Code alongside customer technical teams as a trusted advisor on their infrastructure
- Collaborate with Product and Research teams to ensure successful outcomes and collect actionable feedback
- Document best practices and insights to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function
What they're looking for
- Full-stack software engineering (7+ years)
- Customer-facing technical engagement
- Solution architecture and design
- Relational databases (Postgres/MySQL)
- Hands-on coding across technology stacks
- Project planning and scope definition
- Iterative problem-solving
- Cross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- Hybrid work model (3 days in-office per week)
- San Francisco-based with relocation assistance
- Work with cutting-edge AI technology and APIs
- Travel opportunities (up to 50%) to engage with key customers
- Collaboration with OpenAI research and product teams
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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.
View all jobs at OpenAILikely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you embedded deeply with a customer to understand their business challenges. How did you translate those requirements into technical solutions?
- Describe your experience building full-stack solutions. What technologies have you used for backend, frontend, and databases, and how do you choose the right stack for a given problem?