Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - NYC

OpenAI is seeking a Platform Engineer for their Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. The role involves providing hands-on leverage to customer pods, turning repeated signals into platform bets, and raising the engineering bar through tooling and mentorship. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software engineering or ML engineering experience and a track record of shipping 0→1 capabilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering or ML engineering experience
• Experience in high-ambiguity, fast-iteration environments
• Owned customer-adjacent technical work end-to-end
• Built or operated systems where reliability, security, and governance shaped design

Benefits

• Relocation assistance
• Flexible work model (3 days in the office per week)
• Optional travel (<10% of the time)