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Forward Deployed Engineer - Dublin

Backend Developer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Dublin

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex, end-to-end deployments of frontier AI models in production for the company's most strategic customers, based in Dublin.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery across multiple deployments, from first prototype to stable production
  • Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and inform product learning
  • Embed closely with customer teams to understand their needs and guide adoption
  • Scope work, sequence delivery, and proactively remove blockers
  • Balance trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality, adjusting plans as needed
  • Contribute directly to the codebase when progress or clarity depends on it
  • Turn working patterns into reusable tools, playbooks, and building blocks
  • Share field feedback that shapes the Research and Product roadmaps

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, including customer-facing work
  • Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
  • Ability to write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend, using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
  • Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models
  • Willingness to travel up to 50%

Soft skills

Simplifies complexity and makes fast, sound decisions under pressureCommunicates clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholdersSpots risks early and adjusts without slowing downStays calm and shows good judgment under high-stakes pressure

What we offer

  • Relocation assistance
  • Hybrid work model, 3 days per week in the office

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company whose mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company continually pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and works to safely deploy them to the world through its products, while placing safety and human needs at the core of its work and striving to reflect the full spectrum of human perspectives and experience.

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