Life Sciences AI Deployment Lead

OpenAI, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Travel up to 50%

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to deliver production AI systems in drug discovery and development. You will oversee end-to-end deployments inside life sciences organizations, translating real-world data and constraints into scalable production solutions.

You will work with Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM to ensure auditability, validation, and impact in regulated contexts, including 50% travel and relocation support for New York-based roles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software/ML engineering with customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software.
• Experience deploying GenAI deployments end-to-end from scoping through production adoption.
• Strong communication across scientific, clinical, model research, technical, and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship production systems around models, owning integrations, data provenance, reliability, and on-call readiness across research, clinical, and operational workflows.
• Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-sales, translating needs into an execution plan with measurable endpoints.
• Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated contexts, including validation evidence and audit readiness.
• Build in sensitive scientific data environments where auditability and access controls shape architecture and procedures.
• Run evaluation loops that measure model and system quality against scientific benchmarks and drive product changes.
• Distill deployment learnings into reference architectures and validation templates for scalable use across regulated life sciences environments.

Skills

5+ years SWE/ML engineering

Customer-facing ownership

Life sciences domain experience

Education

PhD or MS in life sciences or related field

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to deliver production AI systems in drug discovery and development. You will oversee end-to-end deployments inside life sciences organizations, translating real-world data and constraints into scalable production solutions.

You will work with Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM to ensure auditability, validation, and impact in regulated contexts, including 50% travel and relocation support for New York-based roles.