engineering
Posted Apr 7Forward Deployed Engineer - Sydney
at openai
Sydney, AustraliaHybrid
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Responsibilities
- - Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn.
Requirements
- You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams.
- - Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- You might thrive in this role if you - Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment
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.
- In this role you will - Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production.
- - 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.