OpenAI
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYC
$185K–$300K
New York City · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or adjacent regulated industries.
About the job
Build and deploy AI systems for legal work, partnering with legal customers from use-case discovery and prototyping through production adoption and scalable deployment patterns.
What you'll do
- Embed with law firms and legal teams to identify workflows and high-value initial use cases.
- Build, deploy, and guide adoption of customer-facing systems; contribute code and manage delivery trade-offs.
- Turn successful deployments into reusable tools and playbooks, and share model feedback with Research and Product.
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.
- End-to-end ownership of complex AI or data-driven systems through production adoption in high-consequence environments.
- Production-grade backend and frontend coding skills using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
- Experience deploying LLM- or generative-model-powered systems, including understanding evaluation and guardrails.
Nice to have
- Experience with legal technology, legal services, compliance-heavy workflows, or professional services.
Pay
$185K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Python, JavaScript
AI focus
Build and deploy AI systems for legal analysis, drafting, research, and work with complex case records; use LLMs or generative models and account for evaluation, model behavior, and guardrails.
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