Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SF
OpenAI · New York City
CHECKED 37M AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$185k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Embed with law firms to turn research breakthroughs into production systems.
- Build hero workflows for legal analysis, drafting and case research.
- Own deployments from prototype to production adoption with customers.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed builder with 5+ years shipping high-stakes systems who thrives embedding with legal teams, moving fast from prototype to production and turning field learnings into scalable patterns.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership
- Owned complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end from scoping through production adoption
- Write and review production-grade backend and frontend code in Python, JavaScript or similar
- Deployed LLM or generative AI systems with evaluation and guardrails for user trust
- Communicate clearly across engineering, product, risk, compliance and executive stakeholders
- Experience with legal technology, compliance-heavy workflows or professional services helpful
- 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