Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC
OpenAI · New York City
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$153k–$325k
At a glance
Highlights
- Turn research breakthroughs into production systems with strategic customers.
- Build custom software that solves real customer problems at scale.
- Embed with customer teams to ship prototypes to full production deployments.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
A customer-obsessed full-stack builder with startup DNA who thrives embedding with clients, iterating quickly, and turning ambiguous business challenges into deployed production systems.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional full stack engineering experience in tech and product-driven companies
- Customer-facing experience is highly desirable
- Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
- Bias for action and willingness to work iteratively with customers
- 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