OpenAI is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers in Seoul, with relocation and 50% travel
OpenAI’s careers page lists a Seoul-based Forward Deployed Engineer role on its FDE team: hybrid three days a week in office, relocation assistance, and expected travel up to 50%, owning end-to-end production deployments with strategic customers.
OpenAI has posted a Forward Deployed Engineer role based in Seoul, South Korea, on its Forward Deployed Engineering team. The listing says FDEs lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production with strategic customers — owning discovery, scoping, system design, build, and rollout while partnering with customer engineering and domain teams.
The role is hybrid (three office days per week), offers relocation assistance, and expects about 50% travel. Success is framed as production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that feeds product and model roadmaps. Candidates need 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work, production full-stack skills in Python or JavaScript, and experience building or deploying LLM-powered systems.
For people watching where FDE hiring is spreading beyond US hubs, Seoul joining OpenAI’s FDE footprint is a concrete APAC signal: the work stays embedded with customers, and Korea is being staffed as a delivery market rather than only a sales region.
Source: openai.com