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Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering

OpenAISan Francisco
Hybrid Full-time

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Mid to Senior

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Responsibilities:Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent work streams, translating business objectives into a detailed roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria. Manage daily engineering execution by tracking and driving delivery across OpenAI FDE and customer teams, ensuring progress remains unblocked and properly sequenced.

About the job

About Our Team

At OpenAI, our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team is dedicated to transforming groundbreaking research into robust production systems. We work closely with our clients to tackle significant challenges, serving as the driving force behind our most intricate large-scale projects. Our agile approach allows us to rapidly transition from prototypes to production, establishing reusable patterns that enhance our platform. We function at the nexus of deployment and development, collaborating extensively with OpenAI Research, Product, and Partnerships.

About the Position

As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will be instrumental in defining the delivery of sophisticated systems to our clients. You will oversee the construction, shipping, and adoption processes. Your role involves translating business objectives into actionable technical plans, managing daily operations across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and collaborating with customer teams to ensure the delivery aligns with their objectives.

You will manage the entire delivery process: engaging with customers to outline workflows and success metrics, ensuring timely shipping of components, and leading readiness and change management efforts for successful adoption. Your responsibilities will include tracking progress, managing dependencies, making sequencing decisions, and driving prototypes from initial concept through to MVP and scaling. Additionally, you will provide field insights to Product and Research to inform roadmaps and priorities.

Your success will primarily be measured by the impact of deployments that yield quantifiable value aligned with customer goals, increase adoption, and become integral to their workflows. Other success metrics include delivery reliability (meeting milestones, minimizing reopen/churn), operational efficiency (reusing patterns across deployments), sound judgment under pressure, and product impact (field feedback influencing roadmaps/architectures).

This role is characterized by a high level of trust and autonomy. To excel, you will need profound technical project management skills, a strong sense of ownership over outcomes, and an ability to immerse yourself in customer workflows while partnering with their teams to resolve complex engineering challenges swiftly.

This position is based in San Francisco. We adopt a hybrid working model, requiring three days in the office each week. Relocation assistance is available, and travel of 25%-50% is anticipated.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is at the forefront of artificial intelligence research and deployment, working to ensure that advanced AI technologies are aligned with human values and can be used safely and effectively.

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