# Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $153k – $325k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Openai Apis, Full-Stack Development, Postgres, MySQL, Relational Databases
**Posted:** 2025-12-10

> Build custom full-stack software using OpenAI APIs to solve strategic customer problems. Embed with clients, design scalable solutions, and collaborate across teams. Requires 7+ years full-stack experience and customer-facing skills.

## 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.

## Similar roles

- [Senior Solutions Architect](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/911bbcac-e6dc-4ec6-abec-063ec132eafa) - Airtable - Remote - $153k – $237k/yr
- [Senior Solutions Architect](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/e191c68f-b39f-43cf-a496-c8042fb12e0f) - Airtable - Remote - $153k – $222k/yr
- [Sr. Solutions Engineer - Public Sector](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5bd848e5-62a8-4428-a008-ab2133070a96) - Databricks - McLean, VA - $152k – $209k/yr
- [Senior Public Sector Solutions Architect](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/0d87168c-8a0e-452a-bc58-e650ba323691) - GitLab - Remote - $154k – $231k/yr
- [Senior Solutions Architect](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6f0a0b9f-5d9a-4d6b-8ed6-9072b1ce9356) - GitLab - Remote - $154k – $231k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/db3ea59f-cfee-4323-899a-64b94633a2e7
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/db3ea59f-cfee-4323-899a-64b94633a2e7