Forward Deployed Engineer - Sydney

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.