Applied AI Architect, Retail
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labremotesenior$217k–$276k
At a glance
Highlights
- Act as CTO of a retail customer portfolio shaping AI strategy and adoption.
- Guide retail solutions from discovery and prototypes to production business impact.
- Partner with sales and product teams to drive sustained production adoption.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed architect who thrives between executive strategy and hands-on building. You love retail, own outcomes, and care about deploying AI responsibly for measurable impact.
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 and measurable impact
- Strong software and cloud architecture foundations across APIs, distributed systems, data, security and privacy
- Understanding of modern AI systems including frontier LLMs, agentic applications and evaluation
- Ability to prototype with APIs and SDKs in Python or JavaScript and explain technical tradeoffs
- Meaningful retail expertise or fluency with retail and consumer business needs
- Clear communicator who builds credibility with executives and engineers and turns ambiguity into action
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