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OpenAI · 2 days ago

Solutions Architect, Gov

Washington, DC

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

7+ years exp

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As the founding Solutions Architect in the Public Sector segment, you will partner with government agencies to establish a GenAI strategy and drive applications to production through strong technical guidance.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Deeply embed with our most sophisticated public sector customers as the technical lead, serving as their technical thought partner to ideate and build novel applications on our API

Work with senior customer stakeholders to identify the best applications of GenAI in their industry and to build/qualify a comprehensive backlog to support their AI roadmap

Intervene directly to accelerate customer time to value through building hands-on prototypes and/or by delivering impactful strategic guidance, often in collaboration with systems integrators and implementation partners

Forge and manage relationships with our customers’ and implementation partners’ leadership and stakeholders to ensure the successful deployment and scale of their applications

Contribute to our open-source developer and enterprise resources

Scale the Solutions Architect function through sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing notebooks to our internal and external repositories

Validate, synthesize, and deliver high-signal feedback to the Product, Engineering, and Research teams

Qualification

Technical consultingGenAI implementationsActive TS/SCI clearanceNetwork architectureCloud architecturePythonJavaScriptProblem ownershipEffective communicationTeam collaborationProject management

Required

7+ years of technical consulting (or equivalent) experience with public sector customers (U.S. federal preferred), bridging technical teams and senior stakeholders

Active TS/SCI clearance

Successfully led GenAI or traditional ML implementations for government agencies in close collaboration with systems integrators and implementation partners

Understand network and cloud architecture, including experience with on-premise deployments

Effective and polished communicator who can translate business and technical topics to all audiences

Industry experience in programming languages like Python or Javascript

Own problems end-to-end and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done

Humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed

Effective, high throughput operator who can drive multiple concurrent projects and prioritize ruthlessly