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Forward Deployed Engineer - London

Backend Developer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 London

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team turns research breakthroughs into production systems together with the company's most strategic customers, from discovery through full production rollout.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from prototype to stable production
  • Build full-stack systems that deliver direct customer value
  • Embed closely with customer teams to understand needs and drive adoption
  • Scope, sequence, and prioritize work, removing blockers early
  • Contribute directly in code when progress or clarity depends on it
  • Share field feedback with Research and Product to improve the models

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing work
  • Track record scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • Production-grade coding and code review across frontend and backend (Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks)
  • Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models

Soft skills

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

What we offer

  • Relocation assistance provided

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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