# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Tokyo, Japan
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, LLMs, Generative AI, Frontend Development, Backend Development, Full-Stack Development, Production Systems, System Design, Technical Deployment
**Posted:** 2025-09-16

> Leads end-to-end deployment of frontier-model systems for strategic customers, from discovery and system design through production rollout. The role requires 5+ years of customer-facing engineering or technical deployment experience, full-stack coding ability, LLM experience, and fluency in Japanese and English.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production.
- Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and improve learning from deployments.
- Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption.
- Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early.
- Make trade-offs among scope, speed, and quality to protect delivery.
- Contribute directly to code when progress or clarity depends on it.
- Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or reusable building blocks.
- Share field feedback with Research and Product to improve models and products.
- Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, including customer-facing work.
- 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 LLMs or generative models.
- Understanding of how model behavior affects product experience.
- Ability to simplify complexity and make sound decisions under pressure.
- Clear communication with engineers, product teams, and customer stakeholders.
- Ability to identify risks early and adjust plans without slowing delivery.
- Calm judgment in high-stakes situations.
- Fluent spoken and written Japanese and English; resumes must be submitted in English and interviews include both languages.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Hybrid work model with 3 days per week in the office.
- Relocation assistance is available to new employees.
- Travel is expected, mainly within Japan.

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