OpenAI

Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) -SF

We captured this posting once, on 2026-08-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer: OpenAI
Location: New York, NY · San Francisco, CA
Seniority: Mid level
Experience asked for: 5+ years
Pay band: $230K – $385K

When we saw it

Posted 2026-07-25 — the date the employer published it
Archived 2026-08-05 — when we saved this copy

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architectureproduct shapingcode refactoringimplementationmentorshipsystems thinkingcommunication

From the posting

About The Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) org sits at the intersection of product, engineering, research, and go-to-market. We take frontier platform capabilities into the real world with design partners, turning raw customer signal into shipped software, repeatable patterns, and durable products. The FDE Platform team is primarily a leverage function that scales the FDE org’s impact to OpenAI’s platform and products. We provide hands-on leverage by embedding with customer-tagged FDE pods to aid in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, and building. This team is perfect for highly collaborative software engineers who love innovating on cutting-edge products with other builders. …

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