Life Sciences AI Deployment Lead

OpenAI, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Travel up to 50%

Job summary

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team deploys AI in life sciences, working with customers to translate real-world data into production-grade AI systems. The role is based in New York with a hybrid model (3 days in the office) and relocation assistance, plus travel up to 50%.

The candidate will lead end-to-end deployments for drug discovery and development, ensuring auditability and regulatory readiness in collaboration with Product, Research, Partnerships, and Security teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment with customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software.
• Ownership of GenAI deployments end-to-end from scoping to production adoption with evaluation design and evidence generation.
• Experience delivering AI systems in regulated life sciences contexts with auditability and compliance considerations.
• Clear communication across scientific, clinical, model research, technical, and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship production systems around models, including data provenance and reliability across research and operational workflows.
• Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-sales with a hypothesis-driven plan and measurable endpoints.
• Define launch criteria for regulated contexts with validation evidence and audit readiness.
• Build in sensitive scientific data environments ensuring access controls and validation.
• Run evaluation loops to measure model/system quality against scientific benchmarks and drive improvements.
• Create reference architectures and validation templates that scale across regulated life sciences environments.

Skills

Software/ML engineering

Customer-facing ownership

Life sciences domain experience

Effective communication

Education

PhD, MS in life sciences or related field

Job description

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team deploys AI in life sciences, working with customers to translate real-world data into production-grade AI systems. The role is based in New York with a hybrid model (3 days in the office) and relocation assistance, plus travel up to 50%.

The candidate will lead end-to-end deployments for drug discovery and development, ensuring auditability and regulatory readiness in collaboration with Product, Research, Partnerships, and Security teams.