Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - NYCActive$198K–$294K

Hybrid · New York CityTechnology

The opportunity

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements.

What they're looking for

  • Bring 7+ years of customer‑facing technical delivery leadership.
  • Track record of successfully leading large, complex, high-stakes customer: engagements where customer outcomes depended on tight coordination and fast decision making, ideally involving AI.
  • Excel in high ambiguity environments. Know how to simplify complex and dynamic work.
  • Move fluidly between system level understanding and execution level detail;: can dive into customer workflows/data, map constraints, sketch architectures and move ambiguous problems to shipped systems.