About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on Oct 26, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
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About the team
OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development.
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineers lead complex deployments of frontier models in production. You will embed with customers where model performance matters, delivery is urgent, and ambiguity is the default. You will use this to map their problems, structure delivery, and ship fast.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer for AI Infra, you will work directly with customer engineers, researchers and product engineers on optimization problems across semiconductors and AI infrastructure. You will write and debug software, run experiments against real workloads and hardware, and improve the tools and product used across engagements.
You will help define the problem and success criteria, build the software needed to test an approach, and stay with the work through validation and deployment. Work may include inference performance and chip-design optimization.