Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle

The role

You will build custom software that leverages OpenAI's APIs to solve customer problems. You will design and implement scalable solutions and work with customers to understand their technical requirements.

What you will do

• Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand business challenges and technical requirements.
• Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach.
• Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for prototypes and production deployments.
• Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor.
• Collaborate with Product, Research and Applied teams to ensure customer experiences and project success.
• Contribute to internal knowledge bases to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional full stack engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies
• Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
• A bias for action and willingness to work iteratively with customers

Nice to have

• customer-facing experience is highly desirable
• Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus

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.