The opportunity
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 you'll do
Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent work streams,: translating customer objectives into a roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
Run day-to-day engineering execution by tracking and driving delivery across: OpenAI FDE and customer teams. Keep progress unblocked and sequenced. Make real-time trade-offs on scope and priority to protect the critical path.
Embed with Semiconductor customer teams to land production deployments and: drive adoption. Map workflows, shape tools/integrations, and translate requirements into a delivery plan.
Shape production deployments that integrate with customer infrastructure,: data systems, and engineering toolchains, including export-controlled environments.
Partner with Product and Research so platform components and research work: streams land in time to support deployment goals.
Codify solution patterns and evals. Extract reusable patterns and package: field signals to improve product and models.
What they're looking for
- Own value cases and ROI. Set impact hypotheses, baselines, and KPIs; run: pre-/post-deployment measurement and report to exec sponsors.
- Help define how OpenAI engages Semiconductor customers.
- Bring 7+ years of customer‑facing technical delivery leadership.
- Have deep expertise in Semiconductor workflows, including RTL design,: verification, EDA tooling, and physical implementation.
