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Forward Deployed Engineer - Dublin

OpenAI · Dublin, Ireland

RemoteMid levelEngineeringForward Deployed EngineeringForward Deployed EngineeringPosted 18 months ago

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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. About the role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that changes product and model roadmaps. You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams. This role is based in Dublin. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role you will - Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production - Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn - 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 the models succeed and where they can improve - Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through You might thrive in this role if you - Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work - Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments - Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Py

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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