Platform Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) -SF

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) org seeks a Platform Engineer to build new platform capabilities from scratch, grounded in real customer deployments. The role involves hands-on leverage, providing support to customer pods, and collaborating with cross-functional platform teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering or ML engineering experience with a track record of shipping 0→1 capabilities
• Owned customer-adjacent technical work end-to-end
• Built or operated systems where reliability, security, and governance shaped design

Benefits

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