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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF

About the teamOpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the roleForwar

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Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-11T20:56:10.864+00:00

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco on a hybrid schedule of three days in the office per week. The role covers end-to-end deployments of frontier models for strategic customers: discovery, technical scoping, system design, building full-stack systems, and production rollout, with direct coding and embedded work alongside customer teams. The posting asks for 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience including customer-facing work, production-grade code in Python, JavaScript, or similar, and prior work with LLM or generative-model systems. Travel up to 50% and relocation assistance are stated. The distinctive mix is customer delivery plus core platform feedback.