Public Sector AI Architect for Mission Impact

OpenAI; Washington; Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an AI Architect for the Government team based in Washington, DC. You will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio and the primary technical counterpart to customer leadership teams, shaping AI strategy and guiding journeys from pre-sales discovery through deployment and measurable mission impact.

You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions, translating mission priorities into an adoption

Qualifications

• Significant experience in customer-facing technical roles such as solutions architecture, solutions engineering, technical account leadership, AI deployment, or technical customer success.
• Experience guiding complex organizations from technical evaluation through production adoption and measurable impact.
• Experience with government agencies, public institutions, or government contractors and understanding mission priorities, security, compliance, governance, and procurement considerations.

Responsibilities

• 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, milestones, adoption priorities, and expansion opportunities.
• Lead discovery with agency leaders, mission owners, executives, and technical teams to identify 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 the solution and its path to production.

Skills

Solutions architecture

Customer-facing technical roles

Executive communication

APIs and enterprise AI workflows

Python

JavaScript

Tools

Python

JavaScript

APIs

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an AI Architect for the Government team based in Washington, DC. You will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio and the primary technical counterpart to customer leadership teams, shaping AI strategy and guiding journeys from pre-sales discovery through deployment and measurable mission impact.

You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions, translating mission priorities into an adoption