Manufacturing Engineer, Electrical/Electronics – Entry Level
Boeing
Forward Deployed Engineer – Government
OpenAI
full-time
Posted on:
Location: District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $198,000 - $252,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudJavaScriptKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScript
About the role
- Own technical delivery across multiple government deployments, from first prototype to stable production
- Deeply embed with public sector customers to design and build novel applications powered by OpenAI models
- Enable successful deployments across customer environments by delivering observable systems spanning infrastructure through applications
- Prototype and build full-stack systems using Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks that deliver real mission impact
- Proactively guide customers on maximizing business and operational value from their applications
- Forge and manage relationships with customer leadership and stakeholders to ensure successful deployment and scale
- Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early—making trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality
- Contribute directly in the code when clarity or momentum depends on it
- Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks others can use
- Share field feedback with Research and Product to influence model and product development
- Keep teams moving through clarity, judgment, and consistent follow-through
- Travel up to 50% and participate in on-site customer engagements as required
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience, ideally in customer-facing or government environments
- Active TS/SCI clearance or equivalent
- Scoped and delivered complex systems in fast-moving or ambiguous contexts
- Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend, using Python, JavaScript, or similar stacks
- Familiar with cloud deployment models (Azure, AWS), Kubernetes, Terraform, and related infrastructure
- Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models, and understanding how model behavior affects product experience
- Simplify complexity, make fast, sound decisions under pressure, and communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences
- Spot risks early, adjust without slowing down, and model calm judgment when stakes are high
- Humble, collaborative, and eager to help others with empathy
- Ability to operate with high horsepower, prioritize across multiple projects, and thrive in dynamic environments
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% for onboarding and on-site customer work
- Able to work from OpenAI’s Washington, DC office three days per week
