> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Software Engineer, Full Stack (People Innovation Labs) Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/def83285335300f2 OpenAI posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in US, at $153,000–$385,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Build and operate internal People products and agents spanning recruiting, HR, culture, and employee workflows, including OpenHouse and a custom recruiting stack. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) Posted Jul 22, 2025 by OpenAI · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$153,000–$385,000** + equity US Remote Full-time Build and operate internal People products and agents spanning recruiting, HR, culture, and employee workflows, including OpenHouse and a custom recruiting stack. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fdef83285335300f2&placement=top) - [View posting at OpenAI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/d4780eac-03ad-4dae-861f-99af22b4287e/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $153K–$385K Above the median Midpoint $269K · median $190K This job $153K to $385K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. [Compare pay across all OpenAI postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/openai) ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Internal teams - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** professional engineering experience in relevant roles, excluding internships Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The work is remote from the US. Can you work from the US? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: US - **Work arrangement**: Remote - **Remote work restrictions**: US remote - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [DigiCert](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/digicert) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d2985706d3d863b2) US Remote New · 2d ago $155,000–$200,000 [TRM Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/trm-labs) ### [Senior Software Engineer, AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ae033ab818f8dc4a) US Remote 1mo ago $200,000–$220,000 [Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/jones-lang-lasalle-jll) ### [Forward Deploy Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/adb58e1e1a50fa0b) Chicago, IL · San Francisco, CA Remote 3mo ago $220,000–$320,000 - [Other jobs at OpenAI (52)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ## The job description from OpenAI Posted by OpenAI on Jul 22, 2025 ### About the Team People Innovation Labs is a fast-moving, customer-obsessed engineering, product, and design team embedded in the People organization, focused on rethinking how we find and retain the best talent and empower everyone to do their best work. Across recruiting, HR, and internal communications and culture, we’re shipping systems and agents that give employees and our People team a significant edge by infusing OpenAI’s technology into every aspect of our work. Our portfolio spans internal products like OpenHouse (our internal knowledge hub and workflow platform) and a custom recruiting software stack. We’re harnessing OpenAI’s latest models and platforms to simultaneously rapidly scale the organization and redefine the future of work, creating a blueprint for how AI can supercharge productivity, culture, and innovation. ### About the Role We are looking for a product engineer who loves shipping in an iterative, fast-moving, and richly cross-functional environment. This team is for entrepreneurial full-stack builders who are deeply curious about culture, recruiting, and people development and want to consider everything from the business strategy and metrics down to the code and agent implementations that gets us there. In this role, you will work with domain experts on the People team and leaders across the company to build software and agents focused on HR, culture and recruiting from the ground up. You’ll also innovate on how we apply OpenAI’s latest LLMs and developer platforms in these domains, maintaining a continuous feedback loop with research and product teams. ### In this role, you will - Own the full product development lifecycle for new people products end-to-end, building highly autonomously in collaboration with product managers, designers, data scientists, recruiters, HR business partners, and operations experts - Develop deep relationships with internal stakeholders to understand their problems and push for innovative solutions to address them - Work with research and product teams to share relevant feedback and iterate on applying the latest models - Operate and grow our internal product portfolio with a high degree of product quality, security/privacy/reliability, and responsiveness to user feedback ### Your background might look something like - 5+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies - Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who built a product from scratch is a plus - Interest in building company culture and/or recruiting and developing the world’s most talented people - Proficiency with web technologies (we use Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL) and modern agentic coding tools - Interest in keeping up with the state of the art in LLMs and applying it thoughtfully and safely within a complex problem domain - Ability to move quickly in an ambiguous environment with loosely defined tasks and competing priorities or deadlines ### About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology. [View posting at OpenAI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/d4780eac-03ad-4dae-861f-99af22b4287e/application) ## About OpenAI Builds frontier AI models and ships them through ChatGPT consumer and enterprise products, Codex, and developer APIs. 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