Job Overview

OpenAI is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization. This role involves building new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and build new platform capabilities
• Incubate platform bets end-to-end
• Embed with design partners to learn fast
• Partner with customer-tagged FDEs in the field
• Design and run pilot programs
• Collaborate as part of cross-functional platform teams
• Drive adoption outcomes

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering or ML engineering experience
• Track record of shipping 0→1 capabilities
• Experience in high-ambiguity, fast-iteration environments
• Customer-adjacent technical work end-to-end
• Built or operated systems with reliability, security, and governance

About OpenAI

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 product direction.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid parental leave, flexible PTO, company holidays, mental health support, and more.