OpenAI
Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering- NYC
$302K–$385K
New York City · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or customer-facing engineers.
About the job
Leads OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team in delivering production systems with frontier models and translating customer fieldwork into product and research insights.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow a team delivering customer production deployments; own end-to-end technical and business outcomes.
- Turn field experience into tools, playbooks, and roadmap input for Product and Research.
- Set team performance standards, coach engineers, and develop scalable staffing and delivery practices.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience.
- 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or customer-facing engineers.
- Experience leading high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production.
- Production-grade frontend and backend coding and code review using Javascript or Python.
Pay
$302K – $385K USD base salary
Tools
Javascript, Python
AI focus
Leads deployments of frontier models in production and supports their safe deployment at scale.
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