Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - NYC
OpenAINew York, New York, United States
Posted January 13, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Job Description
We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to push the frontier on what is possible today across drug discovery and development by leading end-to-end deployments of our models inside life sciences organizations and research institutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software
- PhD, MS, or equivalent applied experience in a life sciences relevant field encouraged
- Owned customer GenAI deployments end-to-end from scoping through production adoption, and improved them 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
Benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Generous Paid Time Off