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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Seattle

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

Company

OpenAI

Location

Seattle

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-11T20:56:13.406+00:00

OpenAI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in Seattle for its Forward Deployed Engineering team, which works with customers to move research into production. The role owns discovery, scoping, system design, building and rollout of frontier model deployments for strategic customers, building full-stack systems in Python or JavaScript, embedding with customer teams, and feeding field learnings back to Research and Product. The posting asks for 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing work, production code across frontend and backend, and prior work with LLM or generative systems. Hybrid, three days weekly in office, travel up to 50%, relocation assistance offered.