Customer-Facing AI Deployment Engineer

FDE Times; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 420,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. You will embed with customers to map problems, structure delivery, and ship fast across frontend and backend—Python/JavaScript. This role is based in Abu Dhabi with a hybrid model (3 days in the office).

Travel up to 50% and relocation assistance are provided to support mobility. We embed with customers, scope and sequence delivery, and build full-stack solutions that create

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience including customer-facing work.
• Experience delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
• Production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
• Built or deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
• Ability to simplify complexity and make fast, sound decisions under pressure.
• Strong communication with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.
• Identify risks early and adjust without slowing down.
• Model calm and judgment when stakes are high.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production
• 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
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early
• 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
• Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve
• Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through

Skills

Customer-facing work

Deployment of complex systems

Frontend & backend coding

Model/LLM deployment

Tools

Python

JavaScript

Job description

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. You will embed with customers to map problems, structure delivery, and ship fast across frontend and backend—Python/JavaScript. This role is based in Abu Dhabi with a hybrid model (3 days in the office).

Travel up to 50% and relocation assistance are provided to support mobility. We embed with customers, scope and sequence delivery, and build full-stack solutions that create