OpenAI
Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SF
$185K–$325K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Nov 15, 2025
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience, excluding internships.
About the job
Build scalable, customer-specific full-stack software using OpenAI APIs, working with customers and internal teams to move solutions from prototypes into production.
What you'll do
- Understand customer business challenges and technical requirements, then design, architect, and develop solutions.
- Prepare scopes of work and project plans; code alongside customer teams to deliver projects 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 is highly desirable.
- Former founder or early startup engineer who built a product from scratch.
Pay
$185K – $325K USD base salary
Tools
OpenAI’s APIs, Postgres, MySQL
AI focus
Build customer solutions leveraging OpenAI’s APIs and provide customer feedback to Research and Applied teams.
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