Applied AI Architect, Education

OpenAI
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Customer-facing communication","Stakeholder management","Architectural judgment","Technical prototyping","Judgment on escalation/handoffs"]

Own the technical strategy for a named portfolio of education customers and prospects, acting as the primary technical counterpart to leadership. Translate institutional priorities into Applied AI Architectures across models, applications, data, identity, integrations, security, privacy, governance, evaluation, and deployment. Lead discovery through prototypes and proofs of value, build adoption roadmaps, coordinate specialists, and track production readiness and measurable customer impact.

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Applied AI Architect, Education

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Job Summary

Own the technical strategy for a named portfolio of education customers and prospects, acting as the primary technical counterpart to leadership. Translate institutional priorities into Applied AI Architectures across models, applications, data, identity, integrations, security, privacy, governance, evaluation, and deployment. Lead discovery through prototypes and proofs of value, build adoption roadmaps, coordinate specialists, and track production readiness and measurable customer impact.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as primary technical advisor and long-term relationship owner for a named portfolio of education customers and pre-sales prospects.
  • •Own technical account plans, technical milestones, adoption priorities, value-realization path, and expansion opportunities in partnership with Account Directors.
  • •Lead discovery with education and technical leaders to identify and prioritize AI use cases tied to institutional objectives.
  • •Translate education priorities into Applied AI Architectures spanning models, applications, institutional data, identity, integrations, security, privacy, governance, evaluation, and deployment.
  • •Guide customers through technical evaluations to prototypes and proofs of value, then define adoption roadmaps, coordinate specialists, and track adoption, production readiness, and measurable impact.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Relocation

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience in customer-facing technical roles (e.g., solutions architecture, solutions engineering, technical account leadership, AI deployment, or technical customer success).
  • •Guide complex organizations from technical evaluation through production adoption and measurable value realization.
  • •Strong software and cloud architecture foundations, including APIs, distributed systems, data integration, identity, security, and privacy.
  • •Understand modern AI systems, frontier LLM models, agentic applications, and approaches to model evaluation and enterprise AI workflows.
  • •Ability to prototype and explain technical tradeoffs using APIs, SDKs, and languages such as Python or JavaScript.
Experience:AI deploymentEducation technologyHigher educationK–12 systemsResearch institutions
Skills:Customer-facing communicationStakeholder managementArchitectural judgmentTechnical prototypingJudgment on escalation/handoffs
Tech Stack:ChatGPT EduOpenAI APICodexPythonJavaScriptAPIsSDKsLLMsAgentic applicationsRetrievalDistributed systems

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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