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Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering- NYC

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

New York City

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-23T13:30:38.483+00:00

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team builds production systems for customers using frontier models. This manager leads that team in New York City, owning delivery outcomes, growing engineers, and feeding field findings back to Product and Research. The posting asks for 10+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing customer-facing or FDE engineers, plus production-grade JavaScript or Python. Hybrid: three days a week in office, travel up to 25%. The role is framed as foundational — shaping how the team is staffed and scaled.