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FDE jobs at OpenAI

Builds frontier AI models and ships them through ChatGPT consumer and enterprise products, Codex, and developer APIs.

Later private · About 5,000+ people · AI / Foundation Models

43 postings, 1 new in the last 30 days4 metrosmedian of posted base ranges $257,000

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How OpenAI describes FDE work

OpenAI · US average

Remote

Postings that allow remote work

3% · avg 28%

Well below average

Pre-sales

Evaluation or proposal work before a deal

33% · avg 25%

Above average

Travel

How often postings mention travel

49% · avg 41%

Above average

Seniority

Senior-level responsibility or above

100% · avg 94%

Above average

Production code

Postings that involve writing production code

85% · avg 80%

Above average

Customer contact

Work done for people outside the company

88% · avg 86%

About average

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OpenAI’s postings allow remote work less often than the US average (3% vs 28%) and involve pre-sales more often (33% vs 25%).

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Pay at OpenAI

Across 43 posted ranges, OpenAI’s median sits above $189,000 for senior FDE postings in the US.

Posted base ranges in annual US dollars, from postings that state both ends, each counted at the middle of its range. Bonus, commission and equity are not counted. Compare pay across all OpenAI postings →

25 of 43 build what the customer runs.

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OpenAI's FDE postings apply customer-facing engineering to regulated, enterprise, and early-access AI work.

OpenAI's FDE and adjacent deployment postings cover financial services, healthcare, legal, government, startups, and enterprise software. The shared work is building and deploying AI systems in a customer's environment, while the product area changes the domain knowledge, controls, and location.

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Financial Services role covers discovery, production AI systems, launch controls, audit artifacts, benchmarks, and post-production adoption for regulated institutions. The Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise role moves from use-case selection through production scale with prototypes, evaluation harnesses, integrations, debugging, and decisions about models, agents, retrieval, reliability, safety, security, and governance. The Early Access Deployment Engineer role turns uncertain frontier-model capabilities into scoped use cases, working prototypes, and success criteria.

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