OpenAI
Applied AI Architect
$157K–$276K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2025
- Experience
- Significant experience required; no specific number of years stated.
About the job
Own technical strategy and customer outcomes for a portfolio of organizations, guiding them from AI discovery and evaluation through production adoption and measurable impact.
What you'll do
- Lead customer discovery and prioritize use cases, technical account plans, adoption roadmaps, and success measures.
- Design and explain secure, scalable Applied AI architectures; guide evaluations, demos, workshops, prototypes, and proofs of value.
- Coordinate specialists and track adoption, production readiness, account health, and customer impact.
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 and ability to prototype and work with APIs, SDKs, and languages such as Python or JavaScript.
Nice to have
- Meaningful expertise in a relevant industry or strong fluency with digital-native businesses.
- Experience developing technical account plans, prioritizing complex customer portfolios, and connecting adoption to measurable outcomes.
Pay
$156.6K – $276K USD total pay
Tools
ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI API, Codex, Python, JavaScript
AI focus
Help customers design and deploy AI and agentic solutions, including use-case discovery, architecture, evaluation, production adoption, and measurable business impact.
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