# Applied AI Architect, Government

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $234K - $335K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are seeking an Applied AI Architect to join our OpenAI for Government team. As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will shape each customer's AI strategy and guide their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable mission impact.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of public sector customers and pre-sales prospects.

- Partner with Account Directors on account strategy while owning the technical account plan, technical milestones, adoption priorities, and expansion opportunities.

- Lead discovery with agency leaders, mission owners, executives, and technical teams to identify, qualify, and prioritize use cases tied to meaningful mission and operational outcomes.

- Develop clear Applied AI Architectures spanning models, applications, data, integration, identity, security, privacy, governance, evaluation, and deployment.

- Guide customers through technical evaluations, demonstrations, workshops, prototypes, and proofs of value, building confidence in both the solution and its path to production.

- Help customers navigate the security, compliance, governance, and deployment requirements that shape AI adoption in the public sector.

- Maintain a focused use-case portfolio with clear decision criteria, ownership, blockers, success measures, delivery needs, and adoption plans.

- Develop trusted relationships and technical champions across CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Chief Data and AI Officers, program leaders, engineering teams, and other customer stakeholders.

- Qualify and coordinate support from Deployment Engineering, implementation, training and enablement, security, product and domain specialists, partners, and other delivery teams.

- Remain accountable for technical progress and customer outcomes while ensuring delivery teams own implementation execution once engaged.

- Track adoption, usage, account health, production readiness, and measurable mission impact, intervening early when risks threaten value realization.

- Apply public sector and mission expertise to recognize repeatable patterns, sharpen customer priorities, and identify relevant expansion opportunities.

- Share customer insights with Product, Engineering, and Research, translating field learnings into better products, architecture guidance, and reusable practices.

Requirements:

- 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 working with government agencies, public institutions, or government contractors and understanding how mission priorities, security, compliance, governance, and procurement considerations shape technology adoption.

- Strong software and cloud architecture foundations, including APIs, distributed systems, data integration, identity, security, and privacy.

- Understanding of modern AI systems, frontier models, agentic applications, model evaluation, retrieval, and enterprise AI workflows.

Benefits:

- $234K – $335K • Offers Equity

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- Cloud Architecture
- APIs
- Distributed Systems
- Data Integration
- Identity
- Security
- Privacy
- Python
- JavaScript

### Nice to have
- Public Sector Experience
- Government Agencies
- Mission Priorities
- Security Clearance

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