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Technical Deployment Lead - Singapore
Backend Developer
• Remote
• Full-time
• 📍 Singapore
A founding role on OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team: the Technical Deployment Lead (Singapore) defines how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers, translating business outcomes into technical plans and running day-to-day execution.
Responsibilities
- ▹Own the technical delivery plan across multiple interdependent workstreams
- ▹Translate business objectives into a roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria
- ▹Run day-to-day engineering execution, tracking delivery across OpenAI FDE and customer teams
- ▹Make real-time trade-offs on scope and priority to protect the critical path
- ▹Embed with customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption
- ▹Lead onboarding, adoption, and change management
- ▹Partner with Product and Research so platform components land in time to support deployment goals
- ▹Codify reusable solution patterns and evals
- ▹Own value cases and ROI: set impact hypotheses, baselines, and KPIs, and report to executive sponsors
Requirements
- ▹7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership
- ▹Track record leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements, ideally involving AI
- ▹Excel in high-ambiguity environments and know how to simplify complex, dynamic work
- ▹Move fluidly between system-level understanding and execution-level detail
- ▹Think strategically and pattern-match across deployments
- ▹Strong technical fluency and sharp sequencing instincts
- ▹Have shipped AI/LLM systems in production
- ▹Strong communication, translating technical trade-offs for business leaders
- ▹Expertise in at least one major sector (e.g. healthcare, energy, financial services, semiconductors, IT)
Soft skills
Extreme ownership of outcomesMakes complex technical trade-offs legible to business leadersEnjoys being onsite with customers to accelerate delivery (often 25-50% travel)
What we offer
- ▹Relocation assistance
- ▹Hybrid work model (3 days in the Singapore office per week)
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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