Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Financial Services- NYC

The role

You will lead end-to-end deployments of OpenAI models inside financial services organizations. You will design and ship production AI systems, translate complex workflows into production systems, and shape the Financial Services offering.

What you will do

• Design and ship production AI systems around models.
• Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-production.
• Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated financial environments.
• Build in sensitive data environments.
• Run evaluation loops to measure model and system quality.
• Own delivery state across multiple workstreams.
• Distill deployment learnings into hardened primitives and tooling.
• Surface field feedback to inform model behavior and product capabilities.

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.
• Experience with financial workflows such as research, trading, risk, compliance, underwriting, operations, or investment processes.
• 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.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

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