OpenAI

Technical Deployment Lead, Life Sciences

We captured this posting once, on 2026-06-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

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 2026-04-30 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-06-05 — when we saved this copy

Found via OpenAI AI Deployment family (one-off pull).

From the posting

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) for Life Sciences, you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will focus on the Life Sciences vertical, partnering with pharmaceutical companies, clinical research organizations, and other data and services providers to deploy next-generation AI capabilities across their drug discovery, development, and operations. …

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