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Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov

About the teamThe OpenAI for Government team is a dynamic, mission-driven group leveraging frontier AI to transform how governments achieve their missions. Our team works to empower public servants with secure, compliant AI tools (e.g., Cha

Company

OpenAI

Location

Washington, DC; Seattle; San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2025-09-03T22:38:06.592+00:00

OpenAI's government team is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to lead production deployments of frontier models for defense, intelligence and federal customers. Work runs from scoping and sequencing through building full-stack applications in Python or JavaScript, embedding with public-sector stakeholders and feeding field feedback back to Research and Product. The posting asks for 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, an active TS/SCI clearance, cloud, Kubernetes and Terraform familiarity, and prior work with LLM-powered systems. Up to 50% travel.