OpenAI
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF
$185K–$300K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, including customer-facing work.
About the job
Leads end-to-end deployments of frontier models for strategic customers, from discovery and system design through production rollout and adoption.
What you'll do
- Own technical delivery across deployments, from prototype to stable production.
- Build full-stack systems and work closely with customer teams to guide adoption.
- Share evaluation and field feedback with Research and Product to inform model and product improvements.
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.
- Production-grade frontend and backend coding with Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
- Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
Pay
$185K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
Python, JavaScript
AI focus
Deploy frontier models and LLM- or generative-model-powered systems in production; use evaluation and customer feedback to inform model and product improvements.
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