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Applied AI Architect, Digital Natives (Strategics)

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labremotesenior$218k–$278k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Serve as CTO of your book, shaping AI strategy for digital-native customers.
  • Guide customers from discovery and prototypes to production adoption and impact.
  • Partner with sales and specialists while owning technical outcomes and growth.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Commission

Ideal candidate

A customer-obsessed technical strategist who thrives between executive vision and hands-on delivery, passionate about turning frontier AI into real business value for fast-moving digital-native companies.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in customer-facing technical roles such as solutions architecture or technical account leadership
  • Track record guiding enterprise organizations from evaluation through production adoption to measurable impact
  • Credibility with senior executives and engineers with clear communication across both
  • Strong software and cloud architecture foundations across APIs, distributed systems, data, identity and security
  • Understanding of modern AI systems including frontier LLMs, agentic apps, evaluation and retrieval workflows
  • Ability to prototype with APIs and SDKs using Python or JavaScript and explain technical tradeoffs
  • Experience building technical account plans and prioritizing complex customer portfolios
  • Fluency with digital-native businesses or relevant industry expertise

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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