# Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Legal-SF **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: New York City **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $162K – $280K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/832094fd-4d89-4fe4-bc18-9ba88d347a18?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_50459e3d-8e1 ## Description ## Compensation The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $162K – $280K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and the following benefits. Benefits include: - Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts - Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) - 401(k) retirement plan with employer match - Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) - Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees - 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible - Relocation support for eligible employees - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends ## About the team The Forward Deployed Engineering team at OpenAI partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. They embed deeply with users to solve high-leverage problems, moving quickly from prototype to deployment. ## About the role We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to build and deploy AI systems for legal work. You will embed deeply with customers,often working closely with senior legal practitioners,to identify the right first use case, rapidly prototype a solution, and prove measurable value. Early engagements may focus on creating a “hero” workflow that shows how OpenAI’s models can support legal analysis, drafting, research, or real-time work with complex case records. You will own the technical work from discovery and proof of concept through production adoption, while translating customer workflows and constraints into clear product feedback. As the motion matures, you will turn successful deployments into repeatable patterns that can scale across larger accounts and the broader legal market. This role is based in San Francisco or New York City and uses a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week. Travel up to 50% may be required. ## Responsibilities - Embed with law firms and legal teams to understand their workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and select the right initial use cases to prove value. - Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn. - Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build. - Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust 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 that others can use. - Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve. ## Requirements - Bring 5+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in financial services or adjacent regulated industries. - Experience with legal technology, legal services, compliance-heavy workflows, or professional services; this is helpful but not required. - Have owned complex AI or data-driven systems end-to-end, from scoping through production adoption, in environments where errors carry real financial or regulatory consequences. - Write and review production-grade code across backend and frontend systems using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks. - Have deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models and understand how model behavior, evaluation, and guardrails affect user trust and business outcomes. - Communicate clearly across engineering, product, risk, compliance, and executive stakeholders, translating technical trade-offs into decision quality and risk posture. - Apply systems thinking with high execution standards, turning incidents, escalations, and failures into improved operating standards and repeatable deployment patterns. - Stay calm and decisive when delivery is urgent, ambiguous, and high-stakes. ## Skills ### Required - Python - JavaScript - LLMs - generative models - full-stack systems - software engineering - ML engineering - technical deployment ### Nice to have - legal technology - legal services - compliance-heavy workflows - professional services --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/832094fd-4d89-4fe4-bc18-9ba88d347a18?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)