Staff Engineer 2c Code Generation in New York

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Our Fraud Intelligence team's mission is to turn fraud signals into insight that our EPD teams transform into improvements across Protect, IDV, Signal, and Guaranteed Payments. We believe transaction patterns, device signals, identity linkages, and behavioral data are dramatically underleveraged tools in fraud prevention, and we ground our products in what adversaries are actually doing right now. As the Fraud Intelligence Lead, you will build and run a small, high-leverage team of Fraud Intelligence Analysts (and eventually a Staff Researcher) responsible for live casework across Protect, IDV, and Payments/ACH. You'll operate as a player-coach, hiring and coaching your team while staying close enough to the work to personally pick up casework and SEV response when needed. Responsibilities Team Building & People Leadership Set the casework quality bar: define what rigorous investigation, triage, and reporting look like for the team Coach analysts on investigation technique, pattern synthesis, and translating findings into product/model input Operating Model & Cross-PA Partnership Own coverage allocation across the Protect/IDV and Payments/ACH pods, including flexing assignments as volume shi

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the role As a foundational FDE manager, you’ll lead FDE through high-stakes, ambiguous customer deployments and own technical and business value outcomes end to end. You’ll grow a team that can operate under pressure and help OpenAI learn from the field. You’ll partner closely with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM to ensure fieldwork informs roadmap priorities, drives new exploration, and supports safe deployment at scale. Your decisions will influence how OpenAI is trusted by the customers closest to our deployment work. Your success will be measured by how consistently your team ships, how clearly you deliver signal to Research and Product, and how durable your team and delivery model prove to be. This role is based in New York City We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. This role also will require travel up to 25%. In this role you will Lead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality Codify what works into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage for both OpenAI and our wider developer community Notice early indicators and raise them with urgency, whether in product behavior, customer environments, or delivery practices Use judgement to distinguish what requires action and what does not Set a high bar for FDE performance and support each person’s growth through direct, actionable feedback Define how we staff and support field teams that can scale without added complexity You might thrive in this role if you Bring 8+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or custo