The Forward Deployed Engineer, Financial Services—NYC posting lists a posted range of $185,000–$300,000 and covers regulated production AI systems, launch controls, audit artifacts, benchmarks, and adoption. The Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise posting lists $251,000–$278,000 and covers prototypes, evaluation harnesses, integrations, debugging, reliability, safety, security, and governance. The Early Access Deployment Engineer lists $250,000–$330,000 plus equity.
The ranges are posted pay ranges from separate roles. Some postings mention equity, and the readable source does not establish one compensation basis for every role. Check the original job for the applicable salary, equity, commission, office, and customer travel terms. See OpenAI's current postings and FDE salary data.
