OpenAI Applied AI Engineer for Government at OpenAI serves as senior technical owner for a portfolio of public sector customers. The role involves shaping AI strategy, guiding adoption, and delivering measurable mission impact.
Responsibilities
As an 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 shape each customer's AI strategy and guide their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable mission impact.
This role is based in Washington, D.C. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of public sector customers and pre-sales prospects.
Partner with Account Directors on account strategy while owning the technical account plan, technical milestones, adoption priorities, and expansion opportunities.
Lead discovery with agency leaders, mission owners, executives, and technical teams to identify, qualify, and prioritize use cases tied to meaningful mission and operational outcomes.
Develop clear Applied AI Architectures spanning models, applications, data, integration, identity, security, privacy, governance, evaluation, and deployment.
Guide customers through technical evaluations, demonstrations, workshops, prototypes, and proofs of value, building confidence in both the solution and its path to production.
Help customers navigate the security, compliance, governance, and deployment requirements that shape AI adoption in the public sector.
Maintain a focused use-case portfolio with clear decision criteria, ownership, blockers, success measures, delivery needs, and adoption plans.
Develop trusted relationships and technical champions across CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Chief Data and AI Officers, program leaders, engineering teams, and other customer stakeholders.
Qualify and coordinate support from Deployment Engineering, implementation, training and enablement, security, product and domain specialists, partners, and other delivery teams.
Remain accountable for technical progress and customer outcomes while ensuring delivery teams own implementation execution once engaged.
