Frontier AI Deployment Engineer

OpenAI; Washington; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Travel up to 50%

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production for strategic customers. You will own discovery, scoping, system design, build, and rollout in collaboration with customer engineering teams.

This role emphasizes measuring production adoption, guiding product and model roadmaps, and writing production-grade code across frontend and backend with Python/JavaScript. Expect travel up to 50% and a hybrid schedule in Seattle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
• Scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
• Experience with production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
• Experience with systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
• Ability to communicate clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.

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.

Skills

Engineering experience

Customer-facing deployments

Production-grade coding

Python/JavaScript

LLMs/generative models

Cross-team communication

Tools

Python

JavaScript

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production for strategic customers. You will own discovery, scoping, system design, build, and rollout in collaboration with customer engineering teams.

This role emphasizes measuring production adoption, guiding product and model roadmaps, and writing production-grade code across frontend and backend with Python/JavaScript. Expect travel up to 50% and a hybrid schedule in Seattle.