Hybrid Frontier AI Deployment Engineer

OpenAI, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

Relocation assistance

Travel up to 50%

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to lead end-to-end deployments of frontier models for strategic customers in New York. You will own discovery, system design, build, and production rollout in a hybrid work setting with three days in the office and relocation support.

You will measure success by production adoption and impact, collaborating with Product, Research, Security, and GTM teams while writing production-grade code across frontend and backend.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience including customer-facing work.
• Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving environments.
• Production-grade code experience across frontend and backend (Python/JavaScript).
• Experience with systems powered by LLMs or generative models and their impact on product.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from prototype to production.
• Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and inform learning loops.
• Embed with customer teams to understand needs and drive adoption.
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early.
• Codify patterns into reusable tools and playbooks.

Skills

5+ yrs exp

Python/JS

LLMs deployment

Customer facing

Tools

Python

JavaScript

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to lead end-to-end deployments of frontier models for strategic customers in New York. You will own discovery, system design, build, and production rollout in a hybrid work setting with three days in the office and relocation support.

You will measure success by production adoption and impact, collaborating with Product, Research, Security, and GTM teams while writing production-grade code across frontend and backend.