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Deployment Lead (DL), FDE - Tokyo

About the TeamOpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex la

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Company

OpenAI

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Status

Open

Posted

2026-04-07T22:53:40.194+00:00

OpenAI is hiring a Technical Deployment Lead in Tokyo for its Forward Deployed Engineering team. This founding role owns technical delivery plans and day-to-day execution for complex customer deployments, coordinating field engineers, researchers and customer teams from prototype through adoption. The person maps workflows, sets milestones and KPIs, codifies reusable solution patterns and evals, and feeds field insights to product and research. The posting asks for 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership, AI/LLM deployment experience, Japanese and English fluency, and travel 25–50%. Hybrid; relocation assistance offered.