Forward Deployed Engineer - Tokyo
OpenAI · Tokyo, Japan
CHECKED 35M AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Lead end-to-end deployments of frontier models into production systems.
- Partner with strategic customers to deliver measurable workflow impact.
- Share field feedback that shapes product and model roadmaps.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Bilingual Japanese-English engineer who thrives embedded with customers in ambiguous environments. Calm under pressure, you care about shipping production AI systems and turning field learning into lasting impact.
Requirements
- Bilingual fluency in Japanese and English, resume submitted in English
- 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 LLM or generative AI-powered systems
- Clear communication with engineers, product teams and customer stakeholders
- remote policy
- Hybrid, 3 days in office per week
- hiring process
- Interviews include conversations in both Japanese and English
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