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Manager, 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 RoleAs a fo

Company

OpenAI

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-21T08:28:03.534+00:00

OpenAI is hiring a manager for its Forward Deployed Engineering team in Tokyo. The role leads engineers who build production systems with frontier models for customers, owns delivery outcomes, and feeds field findings back to Product and Research. Candidates need eight or more years in engineering or technical delivery, including two managing customer-facing engineers, plus production-grade frontend and backend coding. Fluency in Japanese and English is required, and the posting notes three office days weekly, relocation support, and travel up to 40%.