Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SF
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 2H AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$185k–$325k
At a glance
Highlights
- Turn AI research breakthroughs into production systems for strategic customers.
- Design and build full-stack solutions from prototype to production deployment.
- Code side-by-side with customer teams as trusted technical advisor.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed full-stack builder who thrives embedded with clients. You have a founder mindset, bias for action, and love iterating quickly to turn ambiguous problems into deployed products.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional full stack engineering experience (excluding internships) at tech and product-driven companies
- Customer-facing experience is highly desirable
- Former founder or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus
- Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
- 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