Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Seattle
OpenAI · Seattle
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$185k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Turn frontier breakthroughs into production systems for strategic customers.
- Lead end-to-end deployments from prototype to stable production rollout.
- Drive production adoption with eval-driven feedback shaping product roadmaps.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed builder with 5+ years delivering complex systems who thrives in ambiguity, stays calm under pressure, and loves embedding with customers to turn frontier AI into real production impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience including customer-facing work
- Scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
- Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript or comparable stacks
- Built or deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models
- Simplify complexity and make fast, sound decisions under pressure
- Communicate clearly with engineers, product teams and customer stakeholders
- Spot risks early and adjust without slowing down
- Model calm and judgment when stakes are high
- 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