OpenAI
Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle
$153K–$325K
Seattle · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Mar 4, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience, excluding internships.
About the job
Build and deploy custom full-stack software using OpenAI APIs to solve strategic customers’ problems, while developing reusable approaches and sharing feedback with internal teams.
What you'll do
- Work with customers to understand challenges, then design and build iterative full-stack solutions and production deployments.
- Create scopes of work and project plans; code alongside customer teams to deliver solutions on their infrastructure.
- Share customer feedback and engagement best practices with Product, Research, and Applied teams.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience, excluding internships.
- Experience with relational databases such as Postgres/MySQL.
Nice to have
- Customer-facing experience.
- Former founder or early startup engineer who built a product from scratch.
Pay
$153K – $325K USD base salary
Tools
OpenAI’s APIs, Postgres, MySQL
AI focus
Build customer solutions using OpenAI APIs and provide customer feedback to Research and Applied teams.
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