Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Munich

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Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Munich Munich, Germany, Munich, Germany 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 an FDE manager, you'll lead FDEs through high-stakes, ambiguous customer deployments and own technical and business value outcomes end to end. You'll grow a team that can operate under pressure and help OpenAI learn from the field. You'll partner closely with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM to ensure fieldwork informs roadmap priorities, drives new exploration, and supports safe deployment at scale. Your decisions will influence how OpenAI is trusted by the customers closest to our deployment work. Your success will be measured by how consistently your team ships, how clearly you deliver signal to Research and Product, and how durable your team and delivery model prove to be. This role is based in Munich. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. This role also will require travel up to 25%. In this role you will - Lead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models. - Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality. - Codify what works into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage for both OpenAI and our wider developer community. - Notice early indicators and raise them with urgency, whether in product

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