Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Munich
OpenAI · Munich, Germany
Frontier labremotemanager
At a glance
Highlights
- Embed with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems.
- Lead high-stakes deployments that shape platform and safe AI at scale.
- Codify field wins into tools and playbooks for developer community.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Calm, decisive engineering leader who thrives in ambiguous customer deployments. You care about shipping real impact, growing high-performing teams, and translating field insight into product progress.
Requirements
- 8+ years engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing
- Led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production
- Write and review production-grade frontend and backend code in Javascript or Python
- Simplify complex work and make fast, sound decisions under pressure
- Operate with urgency in ambiguous environments and elevate team through clarity
- Translate field experience into actionable feedback for Product and Research
- Willing to travel up to 25%
- 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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