OpenAI is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers in Zurich, with relocation and 50% travel
OpenAI’s careers page lists a Zurich-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 is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers in Zurich. The role sits on the company’s Forward Deployed Engineering team, which partners with customers to turn research into production systems at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform work.
FDEs own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout with strategic customers. Success is measured by production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that feeds product and model roadmaps. The posting asks for 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work, production coding across frontend and backend, and experience building or deploying LLM-powered systems.
The Zurich role is hybrid—three days a week in office—with relocation assistance and travel up to 50%. Together with OpenAI’s other regional FDE openings, it underlines how the company is staffing customer-embedded delivery across Europe as well as Asia and the US.
Source: openai.com