AI Deployment Engineer, Gov

Location

Washington, DC

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

OpenAI for Gov

Compensation

• Remote- Zone A$137K – $250.2K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the team

The AI Deployment Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. As the founding AI Deployment Engineer in the Public Sector segment, you’ll help government agencies transform their organization through solutions such as automated content generation, contextual search, and novel applications that make use of our newest, most exciting models and technology.

About the Role

We are looking for a solutions-oriented technical leader to partner with our public sector customers and ensure they achieve tangible value with GenAI. You will pair with government agencies (federal, state, and local), policymakers, and other public institutions to establish a GenAI strategy and identify the highest value applications. You’ll then partner with their technical teams, subject matter experts, systems integrators, and implementation partners to move from prototype through production. You’ll take a holistic view of their needs and design an architecture using the OpenAI API and other services to maximize customer value. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Global Affairs, Applied Research, and Product teams.

This role is based in Washington, DC. We offer relocation support to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• 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 AI Deployment Engineering 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.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Bring 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

• Have 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.

• Are an effective and polished communicator who can translate business and technical topics to all audiences.

• Have 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.

• Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.

• Are an effective, high throughput operator who can drive multiple concurrent projects and prioritize ruthlessly.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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Location

Singapore

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

About the team

The AI Deployment Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. As the leader of our AI Deployment Engineers in South East Asia, you’ll help technology and software companies transform their business through solutions such as customer service, automated content generation, and novel applications that make use of our newest, most exciting models.

About the role

We are seeking an AI Deployment Engineering leader to ensure the technical success of our most strategic technology and software customers in the Americas. In this role, you will manage the entire implementation journey, ensuring seamless platform integration. As the voice of our customers, you will align technical teams to deliver a consistent and exceptional experience throughout the customer lifecycle. Success will be measured by live production applications, increased API adoption, and impactful customer stories that demonstrate the value of our technology.

This role is open in our Singapore office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Own the strategy and operating model of the AI Deployment Engineering team in SEA, ensuring alignment with company objectives and the evolving needs of our customers.

• Lead, build, and mentor a team of high-performing AI Deployment Engineers to deliver exceptional customer outcomes, as demonstrated by production customer applications and increased API adoption.

• Serve as the technical advocate for our customers, synthesizing their needs to develop the Research and Applied Product/Engineering roadmaps.

• Act as the primary technical escalation point during development, fostering trust and maintaining direct communication with executive-level stakeholders.

• Serve as an industry thought leader, championing the safe and innovative application of our technology across various sectors.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have 8+ years of experience in a technical customer-facing role, managing C-level technical and business relationships with complex global organizations.

• Have 4+ years of experience leading technical post-sales teams with a demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and manage technical teams.

• Have led complex implementations of technical solutions (preferrably Generative AI/traditional ML related) and have knowledge of network/cloud architecture.

• Are an effective and polished communicator who can translate business and technical topics to all audiences and mentor others to do the same.

• Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help others, and a desire to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to make both your team and our customers succeed.

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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