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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Seattle

OpenAI · Seattle

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Frontier labremotesenior$185k–$300k
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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
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