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Forward Deployed Engineer - Stockholm

Backend Developer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Stockholm

As part of OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team, you'll lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside the most strategic customers — from discovery and technical scoping through system design, build, and production rollout.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production
  • Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how the team learns
  • 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
  • Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it
  • Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use
  • Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where models succeed and where they can improve

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work
  • Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
  • Writing and reviewing production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks
  • Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models, and understanding how model behavior affects product experience
  • Simplifying complexity and making fast, sound decisions under pressure
  • Clear communication with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders
  • Spotting risks early and adjusting without slowing down
  • Willingness to travel up to 50%

Soft skills

Calm and judgment under high-stakes pressureIndependenceAdaptability

What we offer

  • Hybrid work model (3 days/week in office, Stockholm)
  • Relocation assistance

About the company

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

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