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OpenAIOpenAI

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Builds custom full-stack software leveraging OpenAI APIs to solve strategic customer problems. Collaborates with customers and internal teams, requiring 7+ years full-stack experience and customer-facing skills.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL.
  • Bias for action and willingness to work iteratively with your customers to deliver the right solution that solves their problem.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch.

Skills

Full Stack, Postgres, MySQL, Openai Apis, Relational Databases

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