Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - London
As a Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering in London, you will lead a team of FDEs through complex customer deployments, ensuring technical and business value outcomes. You will drive the delivery of production systems with frontier models and ensure field insights inform product and research roadmaps. This hybrid role requires 8+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in FDE management, and proficiency in Javascript or Python.
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.
As an FDE manager, you’ll lead FDEs through high-stakes, ambiguous customer deployments and own technical and business value outcomes end to end. You’ll grow a team that can operate under pressure and help OpenAI learn from the field.
You’ll 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 London. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. This role also will require travel up to 25%.
Posted June 8, 2026