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Forward Deployed Engineer - Tokyo

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

Tokyo, Japan

Status

Open

Posted

2025-09-16T03:55:31.798+00:00

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team places engineers inside customer deployments of frontier models. The FDE owns discovery, scoping, system design, build and production rollout for strategic customers, writes frontend and backend code, and feeds field findings back to Research and Product. The posting asks for 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, customer-facing work, production Python or JavaScript, and prior work with LLM-powered systems. Bilingual Japanese and English is required; the role is Tokyo-based, hybrid three days a week, with relocation assistance.