# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Madrid, Spain
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, Frontend Development, Backend Development, LLMs, Generative AI, Production Systems, System Design, Customer Deployment
**Posted:** 2026-09-08

> Leads end-to-end deployment of frontier-model systems for strategic customers, from discovery and system design through production rollout. Requires 6+ years of customer-facing engineering or deployment experience, full-stack coding ability, LLM experience, and professional Spanish and English fluency.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own technical delivery across multiple customer deployments, from initial prototype through stable production.
- Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and improve learning about model performance.
- Embed with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption.
- Scope work, sequence delivery, remove blockers, and balance scope, speed, and quality.
- Contribute production code when needed to maintain progress or clarity.
- Codify successful patterns into tools, playbooks, and reusable building blocks.
- Share field feedback with Research and Product to improve models and products.
- Coordinate clearly and follow through across engineering, product, research, partnerships, GRC, security, and go-to-market teams.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, including customer-facing work.
- Professional fluency in Spanish and English.
- Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
- Ability to write and review production-grade frontend and backend code using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks.
- Experience building or deploying systems powered by large language models or generative models.
- Understanding of how model behavior affects product experience.
- Strong communication, judgment, prioritization, and risk-management skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 50%.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Hybrid work model with three days per week in the office.
- Relocation assistance is offered.

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