Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer - Tokyo
OpenAI · Tokyo, Japan
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Frontier labremotemanager
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead FDEs turning frontier research breakthroughs into production systems.
- Own end-to-end delivery for high-stakes customer deployments in Tokyo.
- Turn field learnings into roadmap inputs for Product and Research.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
A calm, decisive engineering leader who thrives in ambiguity and high-pressure customer deployments. You care about shipping real-world AI systems, growing engineers, and turning field signal into product impact.
Requirements
- Fluent in Japanese and English (spoken and written)
- 8+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing FDE or customer-facing engineers
- Led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production
- Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend
- Make fast, sound decisions and simplify complex work under pressure
- Translate field experience into actionable feedback for Product and Research
- remote policy
- Hybrid - 3 days in office per week
- hiring process
- Resume must be submitted in English; 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