Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - NYC
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 that deliver measurable customer value
- Partner with customer teams to understand needs and drive adoption
- Scope work, sequence delivery, and manage scope, speed, and quality trade-offs
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience with 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 · frontend · backend · production systems · eval-driven feedback
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.
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