Forward Deployed Engineer - Singapore

OpenAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Relocation assistance

50% travel

Job summary

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team in Singapore leads end-to-end deployments of frontier models for strategic customers. You will own discovery, scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, collaborating with customer engineering and domain teams to measure success via adoption and impact.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years of engineering or deployment experience with customer-facing work, and have delivered complex systems in fast-moving environments, writing production-grade

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.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across deployments from prototype to production.
• Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and guide adoption by customer teams.
• Scope work, sequence delivery, remove blockers early, and trade off scope, speed, and quality.

Job description

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 Singapore.

• Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
• Relocation assistance to new employees
• 50% travel expected

In this role you will 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.

You might thrive in this role if you 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 P