engineering
Posted Sep 23, 2025Forward Deployed Engineer - Dublin
at openai
Dublin, IrelandHybrid
Responsibilities
- In this role you will - 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
Requirements
- You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams.
- experience that includes customer-facing work - Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments - Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks - Have built or deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models and understand how model behaviour affects product
- experience - Simplify complexity and make fast, sound decisions under pressure - Communicate clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders - Spot risks early and adjust without slowing down - Model calm and judgment when the stakes are high About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems.
- We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development.
- About the role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers.
- You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams.
- You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that changes product and model roadmaps.
- We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.