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OpenAI · Seattle, WA · posted 250 days ago
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| Employer | OpenAI |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, Washington |
| Field | Technology › Data, analytics and AI |
| Level | not stated |
| Source category | Forward Deployed Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering |
| Posted | 2026-03-04 (250 days ago) |
| Work arrangement | A remote or flexible location is listed |
| Pay | Not published in the source listing |
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
We are looking for customer-focused software engineers to build effective custom software that leverages OpenAI’s APIs to solve real customer problems. As an FDSWE, you will work with our customers and OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers to design and implement scalable solutions that solve their most difficult problems. You will design abstractions to solve customer problems, and then use them to scale our speed and quality of delivery across all Forward Deployed engagements.
You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architects, and Customer Success Managers who work on the same account. You will also work with our Research and Applied Product and Engineering teams to provide insightful customer feedback.
This role is based in Seattle. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required.
In this role, you will:
Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail.
Design, architect, and develop full-stack solutions using an experiment-driven, iterative approach.
Prepare detailed scopes of work and project plans for both proof-of-concept prototypes and full production deployments.
Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion on their infrastructure.
Collaborate with Product, Research and Applied teams to ensure seamless customer experiences, project success and actionable product feedback
Contribute to internal knowledge bases, codifying best practices and sharing insights gained from customer engagements to scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function.
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
7+ years of professional full stack engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies - customer-facing experience is highly desirable
Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus
Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
Have a bias for action and willingness to work iteratively with your customers to deliver the right solution that solves their problem.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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How Seattle compares. Among the 80 largest places in Washington, Seattle is #1 by population, #76 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #8 for college degrees (#1 = most), #8 for remote work (#1 = most). Its county, King County, is #1 of 39 counties for average pay ($132,279).
Seattle has 754,195 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 9.6% of the population of Washington. It covers 84 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 8,979 people per square mile. The median age is 35.6, 7% younger than the state median (35.6 against 38.3).
The median gross rent is $2,030 a month (rent plus utilities), 15% above the state median ($2,030 against $1,760). Over a year that is 19.7% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $938,600, which is 7.6 times the median household income ($123,860); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 43.7% of households own their home, 31% below the state average (43.7% against 63.8%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.
The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metropolitan area has 2,086,210 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $72,610 a year, 42% above the national median ($72,610 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (212,900 jobs, median $59,660); business and financial operations (201,160 jobs, median $101,950); computer and mathematical (194,970 jobs, median $156,000). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (2.8 times) and architecture and engineering (1.4 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($168,110) and computer and mathematical ($156,000). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of King County was 4.8%. 74.0% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in King County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.
Among workers, 36.6% drive alone, 11.9% use public transit, 8.1% walk, 34.8% work from home. 13.9% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 18% below the state average (13.9% against 16.9%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.
68.5% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 73% above the state share (68.5% against 39.6%). 20.1% of residents were born outside the United States, 31% above the state share (20.1% against 15.4%). The poverty rate is 9.9%, about the same as the state rate (9.9% against 9.9%).
The warmest month is Aug, averaging 65°F (18.3°C), and the coolest is Dec at 39°F (3.8°C). About 1,230 mm (48 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Nov is the wettest month (188 mm) and Jul the driest (19 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.
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| Place ⇅ | Distance from the job city ⇅ | Median rent ⇅ | Median home value ⇅ | Median household income ⇅ | Commute 45+ min ⇅ | Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅ | Open jobs there ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle, WA | 0 mi | $2,030 | $938,600 | $123,860 | 13.9% | n/a | Jobs |
| Mercer Island, WA | 7 mi | $2,502 | $2,000,001 | $219,069 | 8.7% | n/a | — |
| Bainbridge Island, WA | 7 mi | $2,194 | $1,155,900 | $172,188 | 37.2% | n/a | — |
| Kirkland, WA | 9 mi | $2,401 | $1,115,400 | $150,414 | 10.8% | n/a | — |
| Bellevue, WA | 9 mi | $2,572 | $1,340,300 | $165,576 | 11.1% | n/a | Jobs |
| Shoreline, WA | 10 mi | $1,985 | $811,100 | $112,751 | 17.1% | n/a | — |
| Burien, WA | 10 mi | $1,782 | $638,800 | $91,318 | 15.5% | n/a | — |
| Kenmore, WA | 10 mi | $1,949 | $920,800 | $139,764 | 19.3% | n/a | — |
| Tukwila, WA | 10 mi | $1,898 | $489,000 | $78,381 | 14.6% | n/a | — |
| Redmond, WA | 12 mi | $2,409 | $1,167,800 | $162,560 | 9.8% | n/a | Jobs |
| Renton, WA | 12 mi | $1,998 | $672,600 | $100,432 | 22.0% | n/a | Jobs |
| Mountlake Terrace, WA | 12 mi | $2,004 | $667,300 | $107,687 | 17.8% | n/a | — |
| SeaTac, WA | 12 mi | $1,660 | $519,700 | $81,104 | 14.7% | n/a | — |
| Bothell, WA | 13 mi | $2,346 | $925,100 | $140,427 | 16.6% | n/a | — |
| Edmonds, WA | 13 mi | $1,903 | $890,100 | $122,449 | 16.7% | n/a | — |
| Bothell West, WA | 14 mi | $2,511 | $824,900 | $153,449 | 29.0% | n/a | — |
| Lynnwood, WA | 15 mi | $1,742 | $686,900 | $77,704 | 19.6% | n/a | Jobs |
| Sammamish, WA | 15 mi | $2,857 | $1,407,300 | $239,690 | 18.2% | n/a | — |
| Issaquah, WA | 15 mi | $2,590 | $963,000 | $154,669 | 12.8% | n/a | — |
| Fairwood, WA | 15 mi | $2,233 | $733,200 | $122,134 | 28.0% | n/a | — |
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How far Seattle, WA is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.
| From ⇅ | Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅ | Population of that city ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle, WA | 0 mi | 754,195 |
| San Francisco, CA | 684 mi | 830,235 |
| San Jose, CA | 714 mi | 990,138 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 962 mi | 3,857,263 |
| Denver, CO | 1,024 mi | 718,877 |
| San Diego, CA | 1,059 mi | 1,389,526 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 1,108 mi | 1,642,323 |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 1,524 mi | 697,125 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 1,658 mi | 963,194 |
| Dallas, TX | 1,681 mi | 1,307,930 |
| Chicago, IL | 1,732 mi | 2,711,226 |
| Austin, TX | 1,769 mi | 979,539 |
| San Antonio, TX | 1,784 mi | 1,479,835 |
| Indianapolis, IN | 1,869 mi | 885,860 |
| Houston, TX | 1,888 mi | 2,328,253 |
| Columbus, OH | 2,009 mi | 914,802 |
| Charlotte, NC | 2,283 mi | 903,844 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 2,374 mi | 1,579,706 |
| New York, NY | 2,407 mi | 8,483,844 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2,452 mi | 977,670 |
| City ⇅ | Straight-line distance ⇅ | Open jobs ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| Bellevue, WA | 9 mi | 262 |
| Redmond, WA | 12 mi | 385 |
| Lynnwood, WA | 15 mi | 5 |
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