Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Paris
Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Paris
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About the team
OpenAIs Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team partners with our customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We embed with users to solve high-leverage problems move fast from prototype to deployment and surface reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of field delivery and internal development working closely with Product Research and Go-To-Market (GTM).
About the role
As a foundational FDE manager youll lead FDE through high-stakes ambiguous customer deployments and own technical and business value outcomes end to end. Youll grow a team that can operate under pressure and help OpenAI learn from the field.
Youll 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 Paris. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. 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 behavior customer environments or delivery practices
Use judgement to distinguish what requires action and what does not
Set a high bar for FDE performance and support each persons growth through direct actionable feedback
Define how we staff and support field teams that can scale without added complexity
You might thrive in this role if you
Bring 8 years of engineering or technical delivery experience including 2 years managing high-performing FDE or customer-facing engineers
Have led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production
Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Javascript or Python
Simplify complex work and make fast sound decisions under pressure
Elevate team performance through clarity not process
Operate with urgency in ambiguous or evolving environments
Translate field experience into sharp actionable feedback for Product and Research
Build deep trust with your team by modeling calm focus and judgment when it matters most
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 OpenAIs Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. 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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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
