OpenAI · 9 hours ago
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - NYC
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$220K/yr - $280K/yr
5+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to lead end-to-end deployments of AI models in life sciences organizations, focusing on drug discovery and development processes.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and ship production systems around models, owning integrations, data provenance, reliability, and on-call readiness across research, clinical, and operational workflows
Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-sales, translating ambiguous workflow needs into hypothesis-driven problem framing, system requirements, and an execution plan with measurable endpoints
Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated contexts, including validation evidence, audit readiness, outcome metrics, and drive delivery until we demonstrate sustained production impact
Build in sensitive scientific data environments where auditability, validation, and access controls shape architecture, operating procedures, and failure handling
Run evaluation loops that measure model and system quality against workflow-specific scientific benchmarks and use results to drive model and product changes
Distill deployment learnings into hardened primitives, reference architectures, validation templates, and benchmark harnesses that scale across regulated life sciences environments
Qualification
Required
5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software
Owned customer GenAI deployments end-to-end from scoping through production adoption
Improved deployments through evaluation design, error analysis, and iterative evidence generation that tightens acceptance criteria over time
Delivered AI systems in trial design, regulatory writing, or scientific operations where validation strategy, auditability, compliance constraints, and reviewer expectations shaped system design and rollout
Communicate clearly across scientific, clinical, model research, technical, and executive audiences
Translate technical tradeoffs into decision quality, risk posture, and measurable outcomes with credibility
Apply systems thinking with high execution standards
Consistently turn failures, escalations, and audit findings into improved operating standards, validation artifacts, and repeatable deployment playbooks
Preferred
PhD, MS, or equivalent applied experience in a life sciences relevant field encouraged
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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