London Hybrid Forward Deployed Engineer — AI Deployments

OpenAI, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. in London is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to lead complex deployments of frontier models in production, from discovery to rollout.

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 informs product and model roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
• Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
• Production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from prototype to production.
• Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and learning.
• Embed with customer teams to guide adoption of what you build.
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early.
• Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality to protect delivery.
• Contribute directly in the code when needed.
• Codify patterns into tools or building blocks for others.

Skills

Customer-facing engineering

End-to-end deployments

Production systems

Python/JavaScript

Tools

Python

JavaScript

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. in London is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to lead complex deployments of frontier models in production, from discovery to rollout.

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 informs product and model roadmaps.