The opportunity
OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with banks, asset managers, insurers, and private capital firms to deploy production-grade AI systems in high-stakes financial environments. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development,…
What you'll do
Lead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models
Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality
Codify what works into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create: leverage for both OpenAI and our wider developer community
Notice early indicators and raise them with urgency, whether in product: behavior, customer environments, or delivery practices
Use judgement to distinguish what requires action and what does not
Set a high bar for FDE performance and support each person’s growth through direct, actionable feedback
What they're looking for
- Define how we staff and support field teams that can scale without added complexity
- Bring 10+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+: years managing high-performing FDE or customer-facing engineers.
- Have led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production.
- Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Javascript or Python.
