Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SF
AI summary of the role
Forward Deployed Engineers lead end-to-end production deployments of frontier models for strategic customers, owning discovery, system design, implementation, and rollout.
What you’ll do
- Lead multiple customer deployments from prototype through stable production
- Design and build full-stack systems powered by frontier models
- Embed with customer teams to understand needs and drive adoption
- Scope delivery, manage trade-offs, and remove blockers
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience including customer-facing work
- Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
- Production-grade frontend and backend coding experience with Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
- Experience building or deploying LLM- or generative-model-powered systems
Technologies
Python · JavaScript · LLMs · generative models · full-stack systems · frontend · backend · eval-driven development
About OpenAI
Builds frontier AI models (GPT series) and ships them as ChatGPT consumer/enterprise products plus a developer API for the broader AI ecosystem.
Private Late
Employer postings · Data from · Sources