OpenAI
Applied AI Architect, Retail
$217K–$276K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- Significant experience; no number of years stated.
About the job
Own technical strategy for a portfolio of retail customers, guiding them from AI discovery and evaluation through production adoption and measurable business impact.
What you'll do
- Lead customer discovery, prioritize business-aligned use cases, and develop technical account plans and adoption roadmaps.
- Design and guide secure, scalable AI architectures; lead evaluations, workshops, prototypes, and proofs of value.
- Coordinate specialists and monitor adoption, production readiness, and customer outcomes; share customer insights with internal teams.
What they ask for
- Significant experience in customer-facing technical roles.
- Experience guiding enterprises 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, such as frontier LLM models, agentic applications, model evaluation, retrieval, or enterprise AI workflows.
Nice to have
- Meaningful Retail expertise or strong fluency with retail and consumer businesses.
- Ability to prototype and work with APIs, SDKs, and languages such as Python or JavaScript.
Pay
$217K – $276K USD base salary
Tools
ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI API, Codex, Python, JavaScript
AI focus
Guide retail organizations in applying OpenAI models and agentic AI solutions, from use-case discovery and architecture through evaluation, deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact.
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