OpenAI · 1 day ago
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$220K/yr - $280K/yr
5+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to lead end-to-end deployments of models within life sciences organizations, focusing on system design, technical scoping, and production rollout.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and ship production systems around models, owning integrations, data flows, reliability, and on-call readiness
Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-sales, including problem framing, constraints, trade-offs, and a delivery plan
Define launch criteria for regulated contexts, outcome metrics, and drive adoption until you prove production impact
Build in sensitive data environments where auditability, validation, and access controls drive architecture decisions
Run evaluation loops that measure model and system quality in life science workflows to drive model and product improvements
Distill production learnings into hardened primitives, reference architectures, and templated workflows that scale across regulated life sciences environments
Qualification
Required
5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software
Advanced degree or equivalent applied experience preferred in Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, or a related field
Owned customer GenAI deployments end-to-end from scoping through production adoption and improved them through evals, error analysis, and iteration
Delivered AI systems in trial design, regulatory writing, or scientific environments where validation, auditability, and compliance constraints shaped the system
Communicate clearly across scientific, model research, technical, and executive audiences, translating technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders with credibility
Apply systems thinking with high execution standards, consistently turning failures or escalations in regulated environments into new operating standards
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
Travel up to 50% is required
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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