Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - SF
OpenAI · San Francisco
Frontier labonsitesenior$185k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead end-to-end AI deployments across drug discovery and development workflows.
- Ship production-grade AI systems for pharma, biotech and research partners.
- Turn early deployments into repeatable standards for regulated environments.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A customer-obsessed engineer energized by regulated science who turns ambiguous lab and clinical workflows into trusted production systems with measurable impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma or clinical research
- Owned customer GenAI deployments end-to-end from scoping through production adoption with evaluation-driven iteration
- Delivered AI systems in regulated contexts with validation, auditability and compliance shaping design
- Communicate clearly across scientific, clinical, technical and executive audiences
- PhD, MS or equivalent applied experience in a life sciences-relevant field preferred
- remote policy
- 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
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