OpenAI
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Seattle
$185K–$300K
Seattle · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
About the job
Leads end-to-end production deployments of frontier models with strategic customers, from discovery and system design through rollout and adoption.
What you'll do
- Own technical delivery across deployments from prototype to stable production, including building and contributing code to full-stack systems.
- Work closely with customer teams to understand needs, guide adoption, and scope and sequence delivery.
- Turn deployment learnings into reusable tools and playbooks, and share model feedback with Research and Product.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, including customer-facing work.
- Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
- Ability to write and review production-grade frontend and backend code using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
- Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models, with understanding of how model behavior affects product experience.
Pay
$185K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
Python, JavaScript
AI focus
Deploy frontier models and systems powered by LLMs or generative models in production; provide eval-driven feedback to inform product and model roadmaps.
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