Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI seeks a high-impact role embedded with our largest enterprise customers to design, build, and ship production AI systems on the API. You will lead end-to-end integration, scoping with executives, and creating robust workflows to deliver measurable business impact.

This role involves significant travel and frequent customer-facing work, driving deployment strategies from concept to live operation across multiple environments.

Responsibilities

• Embed with OpenAI's largest enterprise customers to design, build, and ship production AI systems on the API.
• Own the integration end-to-end: scoping with executives, building agentic workflows, hardening evals and observability, and driving measurable P&L impact.

Job description

San Francisco / New York Posted June 24, 2026

Why it's interesting

Ground floor of OpenAI's billion-dollar FDE venture announced in May — the highest-leverage deployment seat in the industry.

The role

Embed with OpenAI's largest enterprise customers to design, build, and ship production AI systems on the API. You own the integration end-to-end: scoping with executives, building agentic workflows, hardening evals and observability, and getting to measurable P&L impact. Expect significant travel and customer-facing time.