OpenAI · 2 days ago
Technical Deployment Lead, Life Sciences
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Technical Deployment Lead for Life Sciences, you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers, focusing on the Life Sciences vertical to deploy next-generation AI capabilities across drug discovery, development, and operations.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent workstreams. Translate business objectives into a roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria
Run day-to-day engineering execution. Track and drive delivery across OpenAI FDE and customer teams. Keep progress unblocked and sequenced. Make real-time trade-offs on scope and priority to protect the critical path
Embed with customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption. Map workflows, shape tools/integrations, and translate requirements into a delivery plan. Lead onboarding, adoption, and change management
Partner with Product and Research so platform components and research workstreams land in time to support deployment goals
Codify solution patterns and evals. Extract reusable patterns and package field signals to improve product and models
Own value cases and ROI. Set impact hypotheses, baselines, and KPIs; run pre-/post-deployment measurement and report to exec sponsors
Shape how we engage Life Sciences customers
Qualification
Required
7+ years of customer‑facing technical delivery leadership
Expertise in Life Sciences
Track record of successfully leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements where customer outcomes depended on tight coordination and fast decision making, ideally involving AI
Excel in high ambiguity environments. Know how to simplify complex and dynamic work
Move fluidly between system level understanding and execution level detail; can dive into customer workflows/data, map constraints, sketch architectures and move ambiguous problems to shipped systems
Think strategically and pattern-match. Able to step back from execution detail, recognise broader trends across deployments, and connect customer needs to scalable, reusable solutions
Have strong technical fluency and sharp sequencing instincts. Confident discussing technical details, pressure-testing architectures, and making trade-offs
Have shipped AI/LLM systems. You understand solution patterns, integration basics, and production pitfalls
You're a translator with executive presence. You make complex technical trade-offs legible to business leaders and convert strategy into day-to-day technical execution
Enjoy being onsite with customers to accelerate delivery (often 25-50%, sometimes higher)
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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2025 (1)
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2022 (18)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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