{"id":1148164,"url":"https://alion.io/job/openai-applied-ai-architect-large-enterprise-2","title":"Applied AI Architect, Large Enterprise","company":{"id":2,"name":"OpenAI","domain":"openai.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/openai","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":195,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.821,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":51,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":230000,"max_usd":446000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":14},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Codex","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T15:30:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T12:39:53Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About the Team\nThe Applied AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams.\nAbout the Role\nAs an Applied 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 act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact.\nYou will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value.\nYou will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations.\nThis role is based in our London office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.\nIn this role, you will:\nServe as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of existing customers and pre-sales prospects.\n\nPartner with Account Directors on account strategy while owning the technical account plan, technical milestones, adoption priorities, and expansion opportunities.\n\nLead discovery with executives and technical teams to identify, qualify, and prioritize use cases tied to meaningful business outcomes.\n\nDevelop clear Applied AI Architectures spanning models, applications, data, integration, security, privacy, governance, evaluation, and deployment.\n\nGuide customers through technical evaluations, demonstrations, workshops, prototypes, and proofs of value, securing confidence in both the solution and its path to production.\n\nMaintain a focused use-case portfolio with clear decision criteria, ownership, blockers, success measures, delivery needs, and adoption plans.\n\nDevelop trusted relationships and technical champions across CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, AI leaders, engineering teams, and other customer stakeholders.\n\nQualify and coordinate support from Deployment Engineering, implementation, training and enablement, product and domain specialists, partners, and other delivery teams.\n\nRemain accountable for technical progress and customer outcomes while ensuring delivery teams own implementation execution once engaged.\n\nTrack adoption, usage, account health, production readiness, and measurable customer impact, intervening early when risks threaten value realization.\n\nApply industry or digital-native expertise to recognize repeatable patterns, sharpen customer priorities, and identify relevant expansion opportunities.\n\nShare customer insights with Product, Engineering, and Research, translating field learnings into better products, architecture guidance, and reusable practices.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\nHave significant experience in customer-facing technical roles such as solutions architecture, solutions engineering, technical account leadership, AI deployment, or technical customer success.\n\nHave guided enterprise organizations from technical evaluation through production adoption and measurable business impact.\n\nBuild credibility with senior technical and business leaders while communicating equally well with hands-on engineers.\n\nBring strong software and cloud architecture foundations, including APIs, distributed systems, data integration, identity, security, and privacy.\n\nUnderstand modern AI systems, frontier LLM models, agentic applications, model evaluation, retrieval, or enterprise AI workflows.\n\nCan prototype, explain technical tradeoffs, and work confidently with APIs, SDKs, and languages such as Python or JavaScript.\n\nExercise sound judgment about when to go deep personally, when to involve specialists, and how to define clear handoffs and ownership.\n\nHave experience developing technical account plans, prioritizing complex customer portfolios, and connecting adoption to measurable outcomes.\n\nBring meaningful expertise in a relevant industry or strong fluency with the needs of digital-native businesses.\n\nCommunicate clearly and can turn ambiguity into a practical technical narrative, executive decision, or action plan.\n\nWork collaboratively across disciplines and care deeply about helping organizations deploy advanced AI responsibly.\n\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.\nOpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy\nAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. 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