OpenAI

Applied AI Architect

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4 hours ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for named customers and pre-sales prospects.
  • Own technical account plans, milestones, adoption priorities, customer journeys, and technical expansion opportunities in partnership with Account Directors.
  • Lead executive and technical discovery to identify, qualify, and prioritize AI use cases tied to business outcomes.
  • Design applied AI architectures spanning models, applications, data, integration, security, privacy, governance, evaluation, and deployment.
  • Guide technical evaluations, demonstrations, workshops, prototypes, and proofs of value through production readiness.
  • Build relationships with CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, AI leaders, engineering teams, and other customer stakeholders.
  • Coordinate specialists across deployment, implementation, training, enablement, product, security, and partners while retaining accountability for technical outcomes.
  • Track adoption, usage, account health, production readiness, and customer impact, intervening when risks threaten value realization.
  • Share customer insights with Product, Engineering, and Research to improve products and reusable architecture 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 enterprise organizations from technical evaluation through production adoption and measurable business impact.
  • Ability to build credibility with senior technical and business leaders while communicating effectively with engineers.
  • Strong software and cloud architecture foundations, including APIs, distributed systems, data integration, identity, security, and privacy.
  • Knowledge of modern AI systems, frontier LLM models, agentic applications, model evaluation, retrieval, or enterprise AI workflows.
  • Ability to prototype and work confidently with APIs, SDKs, Python, or JavaScript.
  • Sound judgment regarding hands-on technical depth, specialist involvement, handoffs, and ownership.
  • Experience developing technical account plans, managing complex customer portfolios, and connecting adoption to measurable outcomes.
  • Meaningful expertise in a relevant industry or strong fluency with digital-native businesses.
  • Clear communication, collaborative working practices, and commitment to responsible AI deployment.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days per week in the Sydney office.
  • Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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