Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - Platform is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $207K - $294K. Posted on Oct 27, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a foundational Platform Deployment Lead (DL), you’ll shape new solutions and lead them from customer validation through launch and repeatable adoption. You’ll combine product judgment with hands-on customer deployment experience to identify valuable problems and define a path to scale. You’ll also help build the function, navigating significant ambiguity to define its scope and ways of working. You’ll partner…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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