Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF
OpenAI · San Francisco
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## Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF **📍 San Francisco, CA · Hybrid (3 days/week in office) · Up to 50% Travel** --- ### 🏢 About the Team OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems — operating at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. --- ### 🧑💻 About the Role Forward Deployed Engineers lead complex deployments of frontier models in production. As an **FDE for AI Infra**, you'll embed directly with customer engineers, researchers, and product teams to tackle optimization problems across **semiconductors and AI infrastructure** — writing software, running experiments on real hardware, and shipping fast in ambiguous environments. Work may include **inference performance** and **chip-design optimization**. --- ### 🔧 What You'll Do - Own end-to-end technical delivery for semiconductor and AI infrastructure workstreams — from scoping through production deployment - Partner closely with customer engineers to define workloads, baselines, and success criteria - Build and debug production-quality software: harnesses, integrations, and product features applying frontier models to chip design, verification, and inference - Design reproducible experiments, evaluations, and benchmarks to validate correctness and performance - Investigate model behavior and failure modes alongside researchers; contribute evaluation or training data - Contribute directly to core product development — ship improvements and bring field learnings into product decisions - Lead technical discussions and maintain alignment across customer, Product, and Research teams - Turn successful approaches into reusable tools and playbooks for future engagements --- ### ✅ You Might Thrive Here If You - Have **5+ years** of engineering or technical deployment experience, including customer-facing work - Have scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments - Write and review **production-grade software** and debug unfamiliar systems - Have built or deployed systems powered by **LLMs or generative models** - Have hands-on experience with **applied ML, model evaluation, data quality, or experimentation** - Can turn an ambiguous problem into a clear evaluation, credible baseline, and reproducible experiment - Communicate clearly with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders - Are comfortable learning unfamiliar technical domains quickly - *(Bonus)* Experience in semiconductor development, data-center systems, or inference engineering --- ### 🌍 About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. > *Relocation assistance available.*
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