About the job
About Our Team
At OpenAI, our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team collaborates with clients to transform cutting-edge research into robust production systems. We sit at the confluence of customer engagement and fundamental platform enhancement.
About the Position
As the Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) specializing in Life Sciences, you'll be instrumental in shaping how OpenAI delivers complex systems to our clients. You will oversee the development, deployment, and integration of these systems, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Your role includes translating strategic goals into actionable technical plans, managing the day-to-day activities of FDEs, researchers, and customer engineers, and collaborating with client teams to ensure that our solutions meet their unique needs.
Your primary focus will be on the Life Sciences sector, working alongside pharmaceutical firms, clinical research organizations, and data service providers to implement innovative AI solutions for drug discovery, development, and operational processes. You will take charge of the entire delivery process: engaging with Life Sciences clients to delineate workflows and success metrics, ensuring timely component shipments, and leading readiness and change management efforts for effective user adoption. You’ll monitor progress, manage interdependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive the development of prototypes from concept to MVP and beyond. Additionally, you’ll convey field insights to our Product and Research teams, helping to shape our strategic roadmap and priorities.
Your success will be gauged primarily by the impact of your deployments—delivering tangible value that aligns with client objectives, fostering widespread adoption, and becoming integral to their operations. Other success indicators include delivery reliability, operational efficiency, quality of judgment under pressure, and the influence of your work on product development.
This position offers a high level of trust and autonomy. To excel, you’ll need profound technical project management skills, a strong sense of ownership regarding outcomes, and the ability to deeply understand client workflows while collaborating with their teams to tackle intricate engineering challenges swiftly.
Your Responsibilities Include:
Leading the technical delivery strategy for multiple interconnected workstreams. Convert business goals into a comprehensive roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
Overseeing daily engineering operations. Monitor and drive the delivery across OpenAI FDE and client teams.

