Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering- NYC
OpenAI · New York City
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremotemanager$302k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead FDE team turning research breakthroughs into production systems.
- Partner with Product, Research and Sales to shape roadmap from field.
- Own end-to-end delivery for high-stakes customer deployments at scale.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A calm, decisive engineering leader who thrives in ambiguity and high-pressure customer delivery, passionate about turning frontier AI research into reliable production impact while growing high-performing teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or customer-facing engineers
- Led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production
- Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Javascript or Python
- Simplify complex work and make fast, sound decisions under pressure
- Operate with urgency in ambiguous or evolving environments
- Translate field experience into sharp, actionable feedback for Product and Research
- Build deep trust with team by modeling calm, focus, and judgment
- remote policy
- Hybrid, 3 days in office per week; travel up to 25%
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