OpenAI Forum hosts a live FDE panel with Colin Jarvis on October 22

OpenAI Forum has listed a public event, “Work at the Frontier: Forward Deployed Engineering at OpenAI,” for 22 October 2026 from 5:15 to 6:00 PM GMT. Colin Jarvis, who leads OpenAI’s FDE team, will moderate a panel of OpenAI forward deployed engineers on how they entered the role and what the job looks like day to day.

The agenda covers how FDEs learn a customer’s business and turn AI capabilities into reliable systems, what helps someone thrive on the team, and an audience Q&A. Named speakers include Jarvis plus OpenAI FDEs Roy Ziv, Grace Lam, and Meghana Tera, with Allie Sandza Wood listed as executive producer.

For engineers evaluating the FDE path, this is a rare primary-source window into how OpenAI describes the role from inside the team — useful alongside the company’s open FDE postings, including newer locations such as Seoul.