Applied AI Architect, Government

About the Team

The OpenAI for Government AI Architect team partners with public sector organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with government agencies, public institutions, and partner organizations serving the government to identify where AI can advance critical missions, 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, Security, Global Affairs, and specialist delivery teams to help public sector customers adopt advanced AI responsibly and effectively.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have significant experience in customer-facing technical roles such as solutions architecture, solutions engineering, technical account leadership, AI deployment, or technical customer success.
• Have guided complex organizations from technical evaluation through production adoption and measurable impact.
• Have experience working with government agencies, public institutions, or government contractors and understand how mission priorities, security, compliance, governance, and procurement considerations shape technology adoption.
• Build credibility with senior technical and government leaders while communicating equally well with hands-on engineers and program teams.
• Bring strong software and cloud architecture foundations, including APIs, distributed systems, data integration, identity, security, and privacy.
• Understand modern AI systems, frontier models, agentic applications, model evaluation, retrieval, and enterprise AI workflows.
• Can prototype, explain technical tradeoffs, and work confidently with APIs, SDKs, and languages such as Python or JavaScript.
• Exercise sound judgment about when to go deep personally, when to involve specialists, and how to establish clear handoffs and ownership.
• Have experience developing technical account plans, prioritizing complex customer portfolios, and connecting adoption to measurable outcomes.
• Bring meaningful expertise in a relevant public sector mission or customer segment.
• Communicate clearly and can turn ambiguity into a practical technical narrative, executive decision, or action plan.
• Work collaboratively across disciplines and care deeply about helping public sector organizations deploy advanced AI safely and responsibly.

While a security clearance is not required, candidates with an existing clearance may have additional opportunities to engage.

About OpenAI

OpenAI 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.

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