OpenAI forward deployed engineer jobs
73 open FDE rolesAI labsopenai.com
Median base
$251k
vs all FDE jobs
+$44k
market median $207k
Posted range
$145–445k
lowest to highest posted base
What OpenAI calls the role
- Forward Deployed Engineer18
- Applied AI Engineer, Codex9
- Applied AI Engineer, Startups6
- Manager, Applied AI Engineering5
- Applied AI Engineer3
- Applied AI Engineer, Cyber3
Where and how
- San Francisco Bay Area20
- New York15
- Tokyo7
- London6
- Seattle6
- Singapore6
Hybrid 68On-site 4Remote 1Senior 44Mid 29
Skills in the postings
Python 52LLMs 39JavaScript 29AI Agents 20Full-stack 17Codex 12Customer Embedding 12Production Systems 11GenAI 10Integrations 10Production Deployment 10OpenAI APIs 8
6 of 73 roles involve government or cleared work
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