Frontier AI Deployment Engineer (Customer-Facing)

Fdetimes; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Travel up to 50%

Job summary

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. You will embed with users to map problems, structure delivery, and ship fast. You will own delivery state across workstreams, ensuring quality and pace, and you will travel up to 50% in a hybrid Abu Dhabi-based role.

This role requires building full-stack solutions, collaborating with product, research, and GTM, and codifying reusable patterns for scalable impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience including customer-facing work.
• Scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
• Production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
• Experience with systems powered by LLMs or generative models and their impact on product experience.

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; adjust plans for delivery.
• Contribute in code when progress depends on it and share patterns.

Skills

Engineering experience

Full-stack development

Python

JavaScript

Customer-facing engagements

Job description

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. You will embed with users to map problems, structure delivery, and ship fast. You will own delivery state across workstreams, ensuring quality and pace, and you will travel up to 50% in a hybrid Abu Dhabi-based role.

This role requires building full-stack solutions, collaborating with product, research, and GTM, and codifying reusable patterns for scalable impact.