Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)- Platform

About The Team

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) org sits at the intersection of product, engineering, research, and go-to-market. We take frontier platform capabilities into the real world with design partners, turning raw customer signal into shipped software, repeatable patterns, and durable products. The FDE Platform team is primarily a leverage function that scales the FDE org’s impact to OpenAI’s platform and products. We provide hands-on leverage by embedding with customer-tagged FDE pods to aid in architecting, product shaping, refactoring, and building. This team is perfect for highly collaborative software engineers who love innovating on cutting-edge products with other builders.

About The Role

This is a founding Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) role for the FDE Platform team. You will be accountable for making our earliest design partner deployments successful, from initial scoping and success criteria through production adoption and demonstrated value. This is an ops-heavy, technically deep role: you will drive alignment across OpenAI and customer stakeholders, run the delivery plan across interdependent workstreams, and ensure enterprise constraints are handled upfront rather than discovered late. You will work closely with B2B Platform and FDE Platform teams to drive crisp execution, clear tradeoffs, and a path to scalable rollout for our platform design partners.

Additional Measures of Success

• Delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn)
• Operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments)
• Judgment under pressure
• Product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures)

Requirements

• 5+ years leading complex, customer-facing technical delivery where you owned outcomes end-to-end in high-ambiguity environments
• Deeply credible with senior technical stakeholders and can whiteboard architectures, reason about enterprise deployment constraints, and go in the weeds when required
• Strong instincts for enterprise security and governance, including permissions/RBAC, audit trails, data access boundaries, and rollout safety
• Bring an ops-first background (e.g., platform delivery leadership, technical program/delivery leadership, product/engineering operations) and a track record of driving execution through matrixed teams
• Communicate with executive presence: you can align sponsors, make tradeoffs legible, and keep teams focused on the critical path under pressure

Qualifications

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.