Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - NYC
OpenAI - New York City, New York, United States
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $116,543 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +9.8% - Much faster than average
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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- Growth-stage From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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About this role
Technical Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - NYC New York City, New York, United States About the team OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. We move quickly from prototype to production and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development - working closely with OpenAI Research, Product and Partnerships. About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), 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. 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. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field
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