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Forward Deployed Engineer - Sydney

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 roleForward

Company

OpenAI

Location

Sydney, Australia

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-13T00:27:14.14+00:00

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team is hiring an engineer in Sydney to lead end-to-end deployments of frontier models for strategic customers. The work covers discovery, technical scoping, system design, full-stack build and production rollout, including hands-on coding, embedding with customer teams, and feeding field results back to Research and Product. The posting asks for 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, production code in Python or JavaScript, and prior work with LLM-powered systems. Hybrid, three days in office, up to 50% travel, relocation assistance offered.