Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Seattle

The role

Forward Deployed Engineers lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production with strategic customers. You will own technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout.

What you will do

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production
• Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value
• Embed with customer teams to understand needs and guide adoption
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers
• 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 to help Research and Product improve models
• Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work
• Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
• Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
• Built or deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models
• Understand how model behaviour affects product experience
• Communicate clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

About the company

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