Deployment Lead (DL), FDE - Tokyo
OpenAI · Tokyo, Japan
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At a glance
Highlights
- Turn research breakthroughs into production systems with customers.
- Drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP to scaled deployments.
- Codify reusable solution patterns to improve products and models.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed delivery leader who thrives in ambiguity and owns outcomes end-to-end. You love embedding with customers, connecting strategy to execution, and turning complex AI prototypes into adopted production value.
Requirements
- 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership
- Fully bilingual in Japanese and English (spoken and written)
- Track record leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements, ideally involving AI
- Strong technical fluency with ability to pressure-test architectures and make trade-offs
- Experience shipping AI/LLM systems to production
- Expertise in at least one major sector (e.g., healthcare, energy, financial services, semiconductors, IT)
- Willing to travel 25-50% for onsite customer delivery
- remote policy
- Hybrid - 3 days in office
- hiring process
- Resume submitted in English; interviews in both Japanese and English
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets