The opportunity
OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development.
What you'll do
Own technical delivery for agreed semiconductor and AI-infrastructure: workstreams, from initial scoping and prototypes through validation, production deployment and adoption.
Work closely with customer engineers to understand their workflows and: constraints, define workloads, baselines and success criteria, and help what you build become part of how they work.
Scope and sequence delivery , identify dependencies and blockers early, and: make practical trade-offs between scope, speed and quality as the work develops.
Personally build and debug production-quality software , including harnesses,: integrations and product features that apply frontier models to problems in chip design, verification, inference and performance engineering.
Design reproducible experiments, evaluations, graders and benchmarks to test: approaches, validate correctness and performance, and establish whether improvements hold up in real engineering environments.
Investigate model behavior and failure modes alongside researchers ,: contributing evaluation or training data and targeted experiments where they can improve the underlying capability.
What they're looking for
- Contribute directly to core product development , working with product: engineers to resolve tooling gaps, ship useful improvements and bring field learning into product decisions.
- Lead technical discussions and maintain alignment across customer, Product: and Research teams. Build the domain and product fluency to explain capabilities, limitations and results, and keep ownership, risks and next steps clear.
- Turn successful approaches into reusable software, tools and playbooks ,: reducing the effort needed for future engagements and helping customer teams operate what has been built.
- Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work