Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC

The role

You will build and deploy AI systems for legal work. You will embed with customers to identify use cases, prototype solutions, and manage technical work from discovery through production adoption.

What you will do

• Embed with law firms and legal teams to understand workflows and identify use cases
• Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value
• Embed closely with customer teams and guide adoption
• Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality
• Contribute directly in the code
• Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks
• Share field feedback with Research and Product

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or adjacent regulated industries
• Owned complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end in environments where errors carry real financial or regulatory consequences
• Write and review production-grade code across backend and frontend systems using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
• Deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models
• Communicate clearly across engineering, product, risk, compliance, and executive stakeholders
• Apply systems thinking with high execution standards

Nice to have

• Experience with legal technology, legal services, compliance-heavy workflows, or professional services

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.