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30 open forward deployed roles · openai.com

• Deployment Lead, FDE - SFTodaySan Francisco$230K – $294K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Engineer - LondonTodayLondon, UK
• Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Financial Services- NYCTodayNew York City$185K – $300K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Engineer - London (Spanish-speaking)TodayLondon, UK
• Forward Deployed Engineer - Madrid (Spanish-speaking)TodayMadrid, Spain
• Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SFTodaySan Francisco$185K – $300K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - SeattleTodaySeattle$185K – $300K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SFTodayNew York City$185K – $300K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-NYCTodayNew York City$185K – $300K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - SFTodaySan Francisco$185K – $300K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - NYCTodayNew York City$185K – $300K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - SeattleTodaySeattle$185K – $300K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Engineer - ZurichTodayZurich, Switzerland
• Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer - TokyoTodayTokyo, Japan
• Forward Deployed Engineer - SeoulTodaySeoul, South Korea
• Forward Deployed Engineer - UAETodayAbu Dhabi, UAE
• Forward Deployed Security EngineerTodayWashington, DC$266K – $445K • Offers Equity
• Deployment Lead (DL), FDE - SingaporeTodaySingapore
• Deployment Lead (DL), FDE - TokyoTodayTokyo, Japan
• Forward Deployed Engineer - SingaporeTodaySingapore
• Forward Deployed Engineer - SydneyTodaySydney, Australia
• Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SeattleTodaySeattle$153K – $325K • Offers Equity
• Deployment Lead, FDE- NYCTodayNew York City$230K – $294K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYCTodayNew York City$153K – $325K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Software Engineer, GovTodayWashington, DC$145.8K – $280K • Offers Equity
• Forward Deployed Engineer - TokyoTodayTokyo, Japan
• Forward Deployed Engineer - MunichTodayMunich, Germany
• Forward Deployed Engineer - ParisTodayParis, France
• Forward Deployed Software Engineer - SFTodaySan Francisco$185K – $325K • Offers Equity
• Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering- NYCTodayNew York City$302K – $385K • Offers Equity

In the news

• FDE is now the biggest AI engineering job category, with 451 open roles in one analysis

  Agent Native analyzed 1,376 AI engineering job ads at 159 companies and found forward deployed roles make up a third of them, led by OpenAI, Wonderful, LangChain, Anthropic and Sierra.

  Oct 7, 2026AnthropicDecagonLangChainOpenAISierraWonderful
• The forward deployed PM: Scale AI and Intercom add a product role next to their FDEs

  A Second Talent analysis of five AI companies' job boards finds Scale AI and Intercom now hiring forward deployed product managers, while Palantir alone listed 81 "Forward Deployed" roles and no PM titles on October 5.

  Oct 6, 2026AnthropicIntercomOpenAIPalantirScale AI
• OpenAI's FDE chief Colin Jarvis: the model is only 20% of the enterprise deployment gap

  In a Ground Level AI podcast interview, Colin Jarvis, OpenAI's global head of forward deployed engineering, said model capability accounts for "about 20% or less" of the gap in getting enterprise AI into production, and that OpenAI's FDEs aim to leave customers able to build the next use cases themselves.

  Oct 5, 2026OpenAI
• OpenAI FDE Luis Velasco: production AI starts with evals, not code

  In a ShiftMag interview, OpenAI forward deployed engineer Luis Velasco says his job is closing the "deployment gap" of data, procedures and tools, and that evals, permissions and system design matter more than writing code.

  Oct 2, 2026OpenAI
• Essay: The $9 billion bet on forward deployed engineers

  VC Eze Vidra argues that deployment, not model access, is now the bottleneck in enterprise AI, and that FDE teams build a moat only when their fieldwork turns into reusable product.

  Aug 12, 2026Amazon Web ServicesAnthropicMicrosoftOpenAI