Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - SF

The role

You will lead end-to-end deployments of models inside life sciences organizations and research institutions. You will design and ship production systems around models and translate workflow needs into system requirements.

What you will do

• Design and ship production systems around models
• Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-sales
• Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated contexts
• Build in sensitive scientific data environments
• Run evaluation loops to measure model and system quality
• Distill deployment learnings into hardened primitives and reference architectures

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software
• Owned customer GenAI deployments end-to-end from scoping through production adoption
• Delivered AI systems in trial design, regulatory writing, or scientific operations
• Communicate clearly across scientific, clinical, model research, technical, and executive audiences
• Apply systems thinking with high execution standards

Nice to have

• PhD, MS, or equivalent applied experience in a life sciences relevant field

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.