OpenAI
Applied AI Architect
$157K–$276K
New York City · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jan 22, 2026
- Experience
- Significant experience; no number of years specified.
About the job
Owns technical strategy and customer relationships for a portfolio, guiding organizations from AI discovery and evaluation through production adoption and measurable business impact.
What you'll do
- Lead customer discovery, prioritize business-focused use cases, and develop technical account plans and adoption roadmaps.
- Design AI architectures and guide evaluations, prototypes, and proofs of value toward production deployment.
- Track adoption and customer outcomes, coordinate specialist teams, and share customer insights with Product, Engineering, and Research.
What they ask for
- Significant experience in customer-facing technical roles, such as solutions architecture, solutions engineering, technical account leadership, AI deployment, or technical customer success.
- Experience guiding enterprise organizations from technical evaluation through production adoption and measurable business impact.
- Strong software and cloud architecture foundations, including APIs, distributed systems, data integration, identity, security, and privacy.
- Understanding of modern AI systems, frontier LLM models, agentic applications, model evaluation, retrieval, or enterprise AI workflows.
Nice to have
- Ability to prototype and work with APIs, SDKs, and languages such as Python or JavaScript.
- Relevant industry expertise or strong fluency with digital-native businesses.
Pay
$156.6K – $276K (USD; base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI API, Codex, Python, JavaScript, APIs, SDKs
AI focus
Guide customers in designing, evaluating, deploying, and adopting AI architectures and agentic AI solutions, connecting use cases to measurable business impact.
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