Forward Deployed Software Engineer London

OpenAI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI research company is looking for customer-focused software engineers to build effective custom software leveraging its APIs. In this hybrid role based in London, you will work closely with customers to design scalable solutions, requiring 7 years of full stack engineering experience. Ideal candidates have a background in relational databases and strong collaboration skills with technical teams, offering relocation assistance and a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Travel opportunities

Qualifications

• 7 years of professional full stack engineering experience, customer-facing experience highly desirable.
• Experience with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL.
• A bias for action and willingness to work iteratively.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic customers to understand business challenges and technical requirements.
• Design, architect and develop full-stack solutions.
• Prepare scopes of work and project plans for prototypes and full deployments.

Skills

Full stack engineering

Relational databases (Postgres/MySQL)

OOP

Software Development

JavaScript

C#

Tools

Spring

.NET

C / C++

Go

React

Java

Distributed Systems

Job description

About the team

OpenAIs Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We embed deeply with users to solve high-leverage problems. We move quickly from prototype to deployment and surface patterns that shape the platform. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core development. We work closely with Product Research and Go-To-Market (GTM).

About the Role

We are looking for customer-focused software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAIs APIs to solve real customer problems. As an FDSWE you will work with our customers and OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers to design and implement scalable solutions that solve their most difficult problems. You will design abstractions to solve customer problems and then use them to scale our speed and quality of delivery across all Forward Deployed engagements.

You will collaborate closely with Sales Solutions Engineering Solutions Architects and Customer Success Managers who work on the same account. You will also work with our Research and Applied Product and Engineering teams to provide insightful customer feedback.

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

In this role you will

• Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail.
• Design architect and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven iterative approach.
• Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments.
• Work hands-on with customers technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Product Research and Applied teams to ensure seamless customer experiences project success and actionable product feedback
• Contribute to internal knowledge bases codifying best practices and sharing insights gained from customer engagements to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function.

Youll thrive in this role if you

• 7 years of professional full stack engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies - customer-facing experience is highly desirable
• Former founder or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus
• Experience with relational databases like Postgres / MySQL
• Have a bias for action and willingness to work iteratively with your customers to deliver the right solution that solves their problem.

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 humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information please see OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

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Key Skills

Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1