Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering- NYC at OpenAI

Company: OpenAI
Location: Remote / New York City
Employment type: Full-time
Salary: $302K – $385K • Offers Equity
Posted: 2026-09-23
Technologies: OpenAI

About the role

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 foundational FDE manager, you’ll lead FDE through high-stakes, ambiguous customer deployments and own technical and business value outcomes end to end. You’ll grow a team that can operate under pressure and help OpenAI learn from the field. You’ll partner closely with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM to ensure fieldwork informs roadmap priorities, drives new exploration, and supports safe deployment at scale. Your decisions will influence how OpenAI is trusted by the customers closest to our deployment work.…

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