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
Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges: and technical requirements in detail.
Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach.
Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept: prototypes and full production deployments.
Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and: trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure.
Collaborate with Product, Research and Applied teams to ensure seamless: customer experiences, project success and actionable product feedback
Contribute to internal knowledge bases, codifying best practices and sharing: insights gained from customer engagements to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function.
What they're looking for
- + years of professional full stack engineering experience (excluding: internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies - customer-facing experience is highly desirable
- Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus
- Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
- Have a bias for action and willingness to work iteratively with your: customers to deliver the right solution that solves their problem.
