Forward Deployed Engineer - UAE

About the role

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems, embedding with users to solve high-leverage problems and move quickly from prototype to deployment. Forward Deployed Engineers lead complex deployments of frontier models in production, working closely with Product, Research and Go-To-Market. The role is based in Abu Dhabi with a hybrid model of 3 days in the office per week, relocation assistance, and travel of up to 50%.

Key responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across multiple deployments, from first prototype to stable production
• Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how the team learns
• Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs and guide adoption of what you build
• Scope work, sequence delivery and remove blockers early
• Make trade-offs between scope, speed and quality, adjusting plans to protect delivery
• Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it
• Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks or building blocks others can use
• Share field feedback so Research and Product know where models succeed and where they can improve

Required profile

• 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, including customer-facing work
• Experience scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments
• Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models
• Ability to simplify complexity, make fast sound decisions under pressure and communicate clearly with engineers, product teams and customer stakeholders

Required skills

• Writing and reviewing production-grade code across frontend and backend using Python, JavaScript or comparable stacks
• Understanding of how model behaviour affects product experience