Frontier AI Deployment Engineer (FDE) – Seattle Hybrid

Triwill Group; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Travel up to 50%

Job summary

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build and production rollout for frontier models alongside our strategic customers.

Based in Seattle with a hybrid model (3 days in the office), relocation assistance, and travel up to 50%, this role embeds with customer teams, ships production-grade code, and shapes product roadmaps through field feedback.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
• Experience delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
• Proficiency in Python/JavaScript and full-stack development.
• Experience deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
• Strong communication and collaboration with customers.

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

Python

JavaScript

LLM models

System design

Full-stack development

Production rollout

Customer engagement

Job description

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build and production rollout for frontier models alongside our strategic customers.

Based in Seattle with a hybrid model (3 days in the office), relocation assistance, and travel up to 50%, this role embeds with customer teams, ships production-grade code, and shapes product roadmaps through field feedback.