OpenAI
Applied AI Architect, Government
$234K–$335K
Washington, DC · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- Significant experience required; no specific number of years stated.
About the job
Owns technical strategy and customer adoption for a portfolio of public sector organizations, guiding AI solutions from discovery and evaluation through production and measurable mission impact.
What you'll do
- Lead technical relationships, account plans, and use-case prioritization with public sector customers.
- Design and guide secure AI architectures, evaluations, prototypes, and production adoption.
- Coordinate specialist teams and track adoption, production readiness, and customer outcomes.
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 complex organizations from technical evaluation through production adoption and measurable impact.
- Experience with government agencies, public institutions, or government contractors, including understanding public sector adoption considerations.
- Strong software and cloud architecture foundations, and understanding of modern AI systems; ability to work with APIs, SDKs, and languages such as Python or JavaScript.
Nice to have
- Existing security clearance may offer additional opportunities to engage.
Pay
$234K – $335K (USD, base salary)
Tools
ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI API, Codex, Python, JavaScript, APIs, SDKs
AI focus
Guide public sector customers in adopting advanced AI, including frontier models, agentic applications, retrieval, evaluation, and enterprise AI workflows; develop secure, scalable architectures and move solutions into production.
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