# Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $153k – $325k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Openai Apis, Full-Stack, Postgres, MySQL, Relational Databases
**Posted:** 2026-03-04

> Builds custom full-stack software using OpenAI APIs to solve customer problems, embedding with clients, designing scalable solutions, and collaborating cross-functionally. Requires 7+ years full-stack experience, customer-facing background preferred.

## Job Description

## In this role, you will:
- Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail.
- Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach.
- Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments.
- Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure.
- Collaborate with Product, Research and Applied teams to ensure seamless customer experiences, project success and actionable product feedback
- Contribute to internal knowledge bases, codifying best practices and sharing insights gained from customer engagements to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function.

## You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- 7+ years of professional full stack engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies - customer-facing experience is highly desirable
- Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus
- Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
- Have a bias for action and willingness to work iteratively with your customers to deliver the right solution that solves their problem.

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