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Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle

OpenAI · Seattle

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labremotesenior$153k–$325k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Partner with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems.
  • Design and architect scalable solutions for strategic customer challenges.
  • Code side-by-side with customers to drive projects to completion.

What they offer

  • Relocation assistance
  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A customer-obsessed builder with years of full-stack product experience who loves embedding with customers, iterating fast, and turning ambiguous challenges into production systems.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional full stack engineering experience in tech and product-driven companies
  • Customer-facing experience highly desirable
  • Former founder or early startup engineer who built a product from scratch is a plus
  • 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
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