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OpenAI

Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - London

OpenAI

Published 07 May 2026
London, UK
Remote
Full Time

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Role Highlights

Languages used

JavaScript
Python
Sharp

Key skills

AI
Information Technology
Data Security
Forward Deployed Engineer
Research
Deployment
Frontend
Backend
Modelling

Tools, Libraries and Frameworks

OpenAI

Description

The role involves leading a team of engineers through complex customer deployments to transform research breakthroughs into production systems. The manager is responsible for overseeing end-to-end delivery outcomes while ensuring that field experiences inform product roadmaps and research priorities.

Required Qualifications and Skills

Candidates must possess at least 8 years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including a minimum of 2 years in a management role overseeing customer-facing engineers. Proficiency in writing and reviewing production-grade code using Javascript or Python is required. Applicants should demonstrate a history of leading high-pressure technical projects from the prototype stage through to production. No specific degree or professional qualification is mentioned as a requirement for this position.

Disclaimer

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About the company

OpenAI

Size

1136

Founded

HQ

San Francisco, US

Public/Private

Partnership

Description

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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