OpenAI
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Financial Services- NYC
$185K–$300K
New York City · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years.
About the job
Leads end-to-end deployment of production AI systems for financial services customers, building reliable, auditable solutions and repeatable deployment patterns.
What you'll do
- Design and ship production AI systems, owning integrations, data flows, reliability, observability, and operational readiness.
- Lead customer discovery and delivery, translating business problems into system requirements, plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Define launch controls and evaluation practices for regulated financial environments; turn deployment learnings into reusable architectures and tools.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or adjacent regulated industries.
- Experience owning complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end through production adoption in high-consequence environments.
- Experience with financial workflows and production-grade coding in Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
- Experience deploying LLM- or generative-model-powered systems.
Pay
$185K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Python, JavaScript
AI focus
Deploy and evaluate AI systems, including LLMs or generative models, for financial workflows; establish guardrails, benchmarks, and feedback loops to improve model and system quality.
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