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Technical Deployment Lead, Life Sciences

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · 1 wk ago
HybridAnalyst$198k–$335k/yrFull-time

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

As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) for Life Sciences, you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals.

Additional Information

  • Based in San Francisco

  • Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week

  • We offer relocation assistance

  • Travel up to 50% is required

Success Measures

  • Measure success by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows

  • 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

  • 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership

  • Expertise in Life Sciences

  • Track record of successfully leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements

  • Excel in high ambiguity environments

  • Strong technical fluency and sharp sequencing instincts

  • Shipped AI/LLM systems

  • Enjoy being onsite with customers to accelerate delivery

Qualifications

  • Deep technical project management expertise

  • Extreme ownership of outcomes

  • Ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace

Skills

  • Translator with executive presence

  • Able to step back from execution detail, recognize broader trends across deployments, and connect customer needs to scalable, reusable solutions

  • Confident discussing technical details, pressure-testing architectures, and making trade-offs

Benefits

No specific benefits listed.

Pay

$198K - $335K

Schedule

Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week

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