Frontier AI Deployment Engineer (Client-Facing)

Fdetimes; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Travel up to 50%

Job summary

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. Forward Deployed Engineers lead 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. This role is based in Seattle with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment with customer-facing work.
• Delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
• Experience writing production-grade code across frontend and backend.

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.

Skills

5+ years engineering

Customer-facing experience

Production-grade code

LLMs deployment

Tools

Python

JavaScript

Job description

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. Forward Deployed Engineers lead 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. This role is based in Seattle with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.