Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Paris

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Paris, France

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead and grow a team of Forward Deployed Engineers delivering production systems with frontier AI models in partnership with customers to turn research breakthroughs into real-world systems.
• Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality, ensuring high-stakes customer deployments succeed under pressure.
• Partner closely with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM teams to translate field insights into roadmap priorities, drive exploration, and support safe, scalable deployment of AI systems.
• Define how field teams are staffed and supported to scale without added complexity, while setting a high bar for performance and enabling team growth through direct, actionable feedback.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing high-performing Forward Deployed or customer-facing engineers.
• Proven ability to lead high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production.
• Experience writing and reviewing production-grade code in JavaScript or Python across frontend and backend systems.
• Skill in simplifying complex work and making fast, sound decisions under pressure in ambiguous or evolving environments.
• Ability to translate field experience into sharp, actionable feedback for Product and Research teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build deep team trust through calm, focused, and judgment-driven leadership.

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week in Paris.
• Relocation assistance provided for candidates moving to Paris.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI deployment at the forefront of technological innovation.
• Direct influence on OpenAI’s product and research roadmap through field-derived insights.
• Exposure to high-stakes customer environments and collaboration across Product, Research, Sales, and GTM teams.

Skills & Technologies

Python

JavaScript

Hybrid

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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