Life Sciences AI Delivery Leader

Neura Market; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Travel up to 25%

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team seeks a Life Sciences FDE Manager to lead a group delivering production AI systems across drug discovery and development workflows. You will own delivery outcomes and team leverage, while staying hands-on as a player-coach, building alongside the team and setting technical direction.

You’ll measure success by team health, production adoption, and measurable workflow impact, with travel up to 25% and relocation support for a New York City-based role in a

Qualifications

• Lead a team of FDEs delivering production AI systems in regulated life sciences environments.
• Own delivery outcomes and team leverage while remaining hands-on as a player-coach.
• Experience building production-grade systems in regulated environments.
• 8+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience with 2+ years of management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of FDEs delivering production AI systems across regulated life sciences environments
• Be accountable for your team’s end-to-end delivery outcomes, balancing scope, speed, robustness, and risk in high-stakes deployments
• Coach and develop engineers through direct feedback, high technical standards, and clear expectations for execution and ownership
• Operate as a player-coach, directly contributing to production systems while leading, coaching, and setting technical direction
• Guide teams through ambiguous, multi-workstream engagements spanning data, workflows, infrastructure, security, and scientific stakeholders
• Run evaluation loops that measure model and system quality against workflow-specific scientific benchmarks, then convert results into crisp roadmap input

Skills

Engineering delivery

People management

Hands-on leadership

Life sciences domain

Backend/ML systems

Job description

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team seeks a Life Sciences FDE Manager to lead a group delivering production AI systems across drug discovery and development workflows. You will own delivery outcomes and team leverage, while staying hands-on as a player-coach, building alongside the team and setting technical direction.

You’ll measure success by team health, production adoption, and measurable workflow impact, with travel up to 25% and relocation support for a New York City-based role in a