Forward Deployed Engineer - Sydney
OpenAI · Sydney, Australia
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labremote
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead end-to-end deployments of frontier models with strategic customers.
- Own delivery from first prototype to stable production at scale.
- Share field feedback that shapes product and model roadmaps.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed engineer who thrives in ambiguity and loves taking prototypes to stable production. You stay calm under pressure, communicate clearly, and care about real-world impact of frontier AI.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience including customer-facing work
- Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
- Ability to write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend
- Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models
- Ability to simplify complexity and make fast, sound decisions under pressure
- Clear communication with engineers, product teams and customer stakeholders
- Ability to spot risks early and adjust without slowing delivery
- Calm judgment when stakes are high
- remote policy
- Hybrid with 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