OpenAI
Applied AI Architect, Digital Natives
$221K–$278K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Feb 4, 2026
- Experience
- Significant experience; no number of years stated.
About the job
Own technical strategy and customer outcomes for a portfolio of digital-native organizations, guiding them from AI discovery and evaluation through production adoption.
What you'll do
- Lead customer discovery and develop technical account plans, use-case portfolios, and adoption roadmaps.
- Design and guide secure AI architectures, evaluations, prototypes, and paths to production.
- Coordinate internal specialists and track adoption, production readiness, and measurable customer impact.
What they ask for
- Significant experience in customer-facing technical roles.
- Experience guiding enterprise organizations from technical evaluation through production adoption and measurable 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 work with APIs, SDKs, and languages such as Python or JavaScript.
Nice to have
- Experience with digital-native businesses or technology companies.
- Experience developing technical account plans and managing complex customer portfolios.
Pay
$221K – $278K USD base salary
Tools
ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI API, Codex, Python, JavaScript, APIs, SDKs
AI focus
Shape customer AI strategy and guide deployment of models and agentic AI solutions from evaluation through production adoption.
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