Production AI Deployment Engineer

Precision Labs; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers.

This role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
• Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
• Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
• Communicate clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production.
• Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn.
• Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build.
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early.
• Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery.
• Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it.

Skills

Customer-facing collaboration

Production deployment

Code review (production)

Clear communication

Tools

Python

JavaScript

Job description

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers.

This role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required.