engineering
Posted Dec 10, 2025Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC
at openai
New York City, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach.
- - Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments.
- - Collaborate with Product, Research and Applied teams to ensure seamless customer experiences, project success and actionable product feedback - Contribute to internal knowledge bases, codifying best practices and sharing insights gained from customer engagements to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function.
Requirements
- As an FDSWE, you will work with our customers and OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers to design and implement scalable solutions that solve their most difficult problems.
- Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL - Have a bias for action and willingness to work iteratively with your customers to deliver the right solution that solves their problem.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- You’ll thrive in this role if you: - 7+ years of professional full stack engineering
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.
- You will design abstractions to solve customer problems, and then use them to scale our speed and quality of delivery across all Forward Deployed engagements.
- You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architects, and Customer Success Managers who work on the same account.
- You will also work with our Research and Applied Product and Engineering teams to provide insightful customer feedback.
- We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
- you will: - Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail.
- - Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure.
- experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies - customer-facing
- experience is highly desirable - Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus -