The opportunity
OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We embed deeply with users to solve high-leverage problems.
What you'll do
Embed with law firms and legal teams to understand their workflows, identify: high-value opportunities, and select the right initial use cases to prove value.
Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn
Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build
Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery
Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it
Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use
What they're looking for
- Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the: models succeed and where they can improve
- Bring 5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical: deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or adjacent regulated industries.
- Have experience with legal technology, legal services, compliance-heavy: workflows, or professional services; this is helpful but not required.
- Have owned complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end, from scoping through: production adoption, in environments where errors carry real financial or regulatory consequences.
