Forward Deployed Engineer

OpenAI; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking a seasoned engineer to own technical delivery across multiple deployments from prototype to production, building full-stack systems that deliver customer value and accelerate learning.

You will closely embed with customer teams, scope work, manage priorities, and make trade-offs to protect delivery. Experience with Python/JS and LLM-powered deployments, plus strong communication, is required; travel up to 50%.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience.
• Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving environments.
• Ability to write and review production-grade code in Python/JavaScript.
• Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
• Strong communication with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

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 to understand needs and guide adoption
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early
• Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality to protect delivery
• Contribute directly to code when progress or clarity depends on it
• Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks
• Share field feedback with Research and Product teams to improve models

Skills

5+ years of engineering or technical部署

Experience scoping and delivering

Production-grade code (Python/JS)

LLMs / generative models

Strong communication with stakeholders

Willingness to travel 50%

Job description

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 to understand needs and guide adoption
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early
• Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality to protect delivery
• Contribute directly to code when progress or clarity depends on it
• Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks
• Share field feedback with Research and Product teams to improve models

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience including customer-facing work
• Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
• Ability to write and review production-grade code in Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
• Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models
• Strong communication skills with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders
• Ability to travel up to 50%

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.