About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of Deployment Lead, FDE - SF in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on Oct 6, 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 (FDE) 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
As a Deployment Lead, you’ll lead some of OpenAI’s most strategic AI engagements from the first executive conversation through production and adoption. You’ll work with executive sponsors to understand what they want to change, spend time with the people who do the work today, and partner with engineers to test what’s feasible. Alongside the account director, you’ll turn what you learn into a case for investment and a deployment plan both teams can commit to.
You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities.