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OpenAI

Forward Deployed Engineer, Life Sciences

OpenAI

. Design and ship production systems around models .

Posted 11/6/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $185,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and deploying AI systems within regulated environments, ensuring compliance and validation while effectively communicating across diverse audiences. Proven ability to lead customer-facing projects from scoping to production adoption in biotech and clinical research.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Software EngineeringMachine Learning EngineeringCustomer GenAI DeploymentsValidation StrategyRegulatory Compliance

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Hard Skills
Evaluation DesignError AnalysisIterative Evidence GenerationTrial DesignScientific OperationsData ProvenanceSystem RequirementsExecution PlansAudit ReadinessOutcome Metrics
Soft Skills
Communication Across AudiencesSystems ThinkingHigh Execution Standards
Certifications & Qualifications
PhDMS
Industry Keywords
BiotechPharmaClinical ResearchScientific SoftwareRegulated Contexts

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design and ship production systems around models
  • Own integrations, data provenance, reliability, and on-call readiness across research, clinical, and operational workflows
  • Lead discovery and scoping from pre-sales through post-sales
  • Translate ambiguous workflow needs into hypothesis-driven problem framing, system requirements, and execution plans with measurable endpoints
  • Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated contexts, including validation evidence, audit readiness, and outcome metrics
  • Drive delivery until sustained production impact is demonstrated
  • Build in sensitive scientific data environments where auditability, validation, and access controls shape architecture, operating procedures, and failure handling
  • Run evaluation loops against workflow-specific scientific benchmarks
  • Use evaluation results to drive model and product changes
  • Distill deployment learnings into hardened primitives, reference architectures, validation templates, and benchmark harnesses

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience with customer-facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software
  • Experience owning customer GenAI deployments end-to-end from scoping through production adoption
  • Experience with evaluation design, error analysis, and iterative evidence generation
  • Experience delivering AI systems in trial design, regulatory writing, or scientific operations
  • Experience with validation strategy, auditability, compliance constraints, and reviewer expectations
  • Ability to communicate across scientific, clinical, model research, technical, and executive audiences
  • Systems thinking and high execution standards
  • PhD, MS, or equivalent applied experience in a life sciences relevant field encouraged

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity
  • Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year
  • Paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices
  • Meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching
  • Wellness stipends may also be provided