Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC is open at OpenAI in New York City (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $153K - $325K. Posted on Dec 10, 2025, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are looking for customer-focused software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. As an FDSWE, you will work with our customers and OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers to design and implement scalable solutions that solve their most difficult problems. You will design abstractions to solve customer problems, and then use them to scale our speed and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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