Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Singapore
OpenAISingapore, Singapore
Posted December 9, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Job Description
As a foundational FDE manager, you'll lead FDE through high-stakes, ambiguous customer deployments and own technical and business value outcomes end to end. You'll grow a team that can operate under pressure and help OpenAI learn from the field.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience
- 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or customer-facing engineers
- Led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production
- Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Javascript or Python
- Simplify complex work and make fast, sound decisions under pressure
- Elevate team performance through clarity, not process
- Operate with urgency in ambiguous or evolving environments
- Translate field experience into sharp, actionable feedback for Product and Research
- Build deep trust with your team by modeling calm, focus, and judgment when it matters most
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance