OpenAI
Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)- Platform
This posting has since been taken down. We keep it because a closed requisition still proves OpenAI created and funded this role — it is not a sign the company stopped hiring for it.
- Employer
- OpenAI
- Location
- San Francisco
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience asked for
- Not stated
- Pay band
- $198K – $335K
- Team
- Model Deployment for Business
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-02-25 — the date the employer published it
- First seen 2026-05-25 — the first scan of ours that found it
- Last seen open 2026-07-01
- Gone by 2026-07-27 — the first scan that no longer found it
- Archived 2026-07-01 — when we saved this copy
Found via OpenAI Careers (Ashby).
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. About the role This is a founding Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) role for the FDE Platform team. …
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