Life Sciences FDE - Production AI Deployments

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco to drive end-to-end deployments of AI models in life sciences environments. You will collaborate with pharma and biotech customers to translate scientific data, infrastructure, and constraints into production-grade systems.

You’ll measure adoption and impact through real-world workflows, with audit trails and validation artifacts guiding product roadmaps in regulated contexts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software/ML engineering or deployment experience with customer-facing ownership.
• Experience delivering GenAI deployments end-to-end from scoping to production adoption.
• Familiarity with validation, auditability, and compliance in regulated contexts.
• Excellent communication across scientific, clinical, model research, technical, and executive audiences.
• PhD, MS, or equivalent applied experience in life sciences encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship production systems around models, ensuring data provenance, reliability, and on-call readiness across research and operations.
• Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales to post-sales, translating needs into requirements and a plan with measurable endpoints.
• Define launch criteria for regulated contexts, including validation evidence and audit readiness, driving sustained production impact.
• Build environments with auditability and access controls shaping architecture and procedures.
• Run evaluation loops to measure model and system quality against scientific benchmarks and drive improvements.
• Create reference architectures and validation templates that scale across regulated life sciences environments.

Skills

5+ years software/ML engineering

Customer-facing deployments

Regulated environments experience

Strong communication across audiences

Life sciences / biotech familiarity

Education

PhD, MS, or equivalent life sciences degree

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco to drive end-to-end deployments of AI models in life sciences environments. You will collaborate with pharma and biotech customers to translate scientific data, infrastructure, and constraints into production-grade systems.

You’ll measure adoption and impact through real-world workflows, with audit trails and validation artifacts guiding product roadmaps in regulated contexts.