Forward Deployed Engineer - Sydney

Openai; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Travel opportunities

Zusammenfassung

OpenAI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production. You will partner with our most strategic customers and own the technical delivery from discovery to production rollout.

To succeed, candidates should have 5+ years of engineering experience and be able to write production-grade code in Python or JavaScript. This is a hybrid role based in Germany, requiring travel up to 50% and offering relocation assistance.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
• Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving environments.
• Ability to write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend.

Aufgaben

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from prototype to production.
• Build systems that deliver customer value and improve learning.
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early.

Kenntnisse

Customer-facing work

Production-grade code review

System deployment

Complex system scoping

Calm under pressure

Tools

Python

JavaScript

Jobbeschreibung

About the team

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development.

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end‑to‑end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams.

You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval‑driven feedback that changes product and model roadmaps. You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams.

This role is based in Sydney. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required.

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.

Qualifications

• Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer‑facing work.
• Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast‑moving or ambiguous environments.
• Write and review production‑grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
• Have built or deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models and understand how model behaviour affects product experience.
• Simplify complexity and make fast, sound decisions under pressure.
• Communicate clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.
• Spot risks early and adjust without slowing down.
• Model calm and judgment when the stakes are high.

About OpenAI

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. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of huma