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Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - NYC

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

OpenAI

Employee count: 201-500

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Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) role involves building new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. The role requires strong software and ML engineers who can collaborate closely with customer-tagged FDE teams and other long-term owners to align early on what should generalize, what should remain customer-specific, and what “ready for handoff” looks like. The role does not require travel and is based in San Francisco or New York, with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.

Requirements

  • Bring 5+ years of software engineering or ML engineering experience with a track record of shipping 0→1 capabilities that other engineers or customers depend on.
  • Have owned customer-adjacent technical work end-to-end, from scoping and hypothesis-setting through production adoption, and improved outcomes through structured iteration (instrumentation, evals, error analysis, and tightening success criteria over time).
  • Have built or operated systems where reliability, security, and governance materially shaped design (permissions/RBAC, auditability, data access boundaries, rollout safety, observability, and incident-driven hardening).
  • Communicate clearly across engineering, product, go-to-market, and executive audiences, simplifying complex ideas and translating technical tradeoffs into adoption impact, sequencing decisions, and measurable outcomes.
  • Default to systems thinking: you turn ambiguous feedback, failures, and escalations into durable product requirements and reusable platform capabilities, not one-off fixes or bespoke delivery work.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance
  • Hybrid work model (3 days in the office per week)

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About OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Developing safe and beneficial AI systems requires people from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. We’re always looking for curious minds to join our team.

The development of AI must be carried out with a knowledge of and respect for the perspectives and experiences that represent the full spectrum of humanity.

Core values

  • AGI focus: We are committed to building safe, beneficial AGI that will have a massive positive impact on humanity's future. Anything that doesn’t help with that is out of scope.

  • Intense and scrappy: Building something exceptional requires hard work (often on unglamorous stuff) and urgency; everything (that we choose to do) is important. Be unpretentious and do what works; find the best ideas wherever they come from.

  • Scale: We believe that scale—in our models, our systems, ourselves, our processes, and our ambitions—is magic. When in doubt, scale it up.

  • Make something people love: Our technology and products should have a transformatively positive effect on people’s lives.

  • Team spirit: Our biggest advances, and differentiation, come from effective collaboration in and across teams. Although our teams have increasingly different identities and priorities, the overall purpose and goals have to remain perfectly aligned. Nothing is someone else’s problem.

Employee benefits

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Flexible Spending Accounts

OpenAI offers flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses.

Life & AD&D Insurance

Employees receive life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) coverage.

401(k) with Matching

OpenAI provides a 401(k) with generous matching, helping employees save for retirement.

Conference Budget

Employees have a budget for attending domestic conferences, fostering professional growth.

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OpenAI

Company size

201-500 employees

Founded in

2015

Chief executive officer

Sam Altman

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