Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $185K - $300K. Posted on Oct 26, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineers lead complex deployments of frontier models in production. You will embed with customers where model performance matters, delivery is urgent, and ambiguity is the default. You will use this to map their problems, structure delivery, and ship fast. As a Forward Deployed Engineer for AI Infra, you will work directly with customer engineers, researchers and product engineers on optimization…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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