openai

Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov

Washington, District of Columbia

No sponsorship$146k-$280kDetected 17 days ago

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonFull-Stack DevelopmentAWSAzureKubernetesTerraformLLMsResearchLeadership

About the role

The OpenAI for Government team is a dynamic, mission-driven group leveraging frontier AI to transform how governments achieve their missions.
You will embed with our most strategic government and public sector customers-where model performance matters, delivery is urgent, and ambiguity is the default.
You'll map their problems, structure delivery, and ship fast.

Own technical delivery across multiple government deployments, from first prototype to stable production.
Prototype and build full-stack systems using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks that deliver real mission impact.
Forge and manage relationships with customer leadership and stakeholders, ensuring successful deployment and scale.

Bring 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, ideally in customer-facing or government environments.

Are familiar with cloud deployment models (Azure, AWS), Kubernetes, Terraform, and related infrastructure.

Our team works to empower public servants with secure, compliant AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Gov) and mission-aligned deployments that meet government technical requirements with strong reliability and safety.
Proactively guide customers on maximizing business and operational value from their applications.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared.
Deeply embed with public sector customers to design and build novel applications powered by OpenAI models.

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