Platform Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) at OpenAI

Company: OpenAI
Location: Remote / San Francisco
Employment type: Full-time
Salary: $302K – $335K • Offers Equity
Posted: 2026-09-28
Technologies: OpenAI

About the role

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) org sits at the intersection of product, engineering, research, and go-to-market. We take frontier platform capabilities into the real world with design partners, turning raw customer signal into shipped software, repeatable patterns, and durable products. The FDE Platform team is primarily a leverage function that scales the FDE org’s impact to OpenAI’s platform and products. We provide hands-on leverage by embedding with customer-tagged FDE pods to aid in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, and building. This team is perfect for highly collaborative software engineers who love innovating on cutting-edge products with other builders. About the role As the Engineering Manager for Platform FDE, you will lead a small team that acts as a multiplier for the broader FDE org.…

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