Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Financial Services- NYC
OpenAI · New York City
CHECKED 37M AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$185k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Deploy production-grade AI systems inside banks and asset managers.
- Lead end-to-end deployments where correctness and auditability matter.
- Shape repeatable AI solution patterns that scale across financial firms.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed engineer with 5+ years shipping AI systems in regulated finance who loves embedding with banks to turn ambiguous workflows into reliable, auditable production impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years in software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment with customer-facing ownership in financial services or regulated industries
- Owned complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end from scoping through production adoption
- Experience with financial workflows such as research, trading, risk, compliance, underwriting, or investment processes
- Write and review production-grade code across backend and frontend systems in Python, JavaScript, or similar stacks
- Deployed systems powered by LLMs
- remote policy
- Hybrid - 3 days in office per week
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