Applied AI Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences
About this role
Guiding enterprise clients through technical discovery, solution prototyping, and production deployment makes up the daily routine in this position. The AI Architect team partners directly with healthcare and life sciences organizations to turn frontier models into secure, scalable solutions that generate real-world value. Acting as the technical owner for a dedicated portfolio of accounts, the person in this role shapes artificial intelligence strategies alongside account directors, connecting business priorities to practical adoption roadmaps while coordinating cross-functional deployment support.
Success in this function requires a blend of industry fluency, architectural judgment, and executive-level communication skills. Individuals who thrive here are comfortable moving between high-level strategic discussions with chief technology officers and hands-on technical conversations with engineering teams. The position demands deep familiarity with modern machine learning systems, cloud architectures, and the specific regulatory or operational requirements of the healthcare sector.
What you will do
- Act as the primary technical advisor and long-term relationship owner for a designated portfolio of healthcare and life sciences accounts.
- Partner with account directors to develop technical account plans, adoption priorities, and expansion opportunities.
- Lead discovery sessions with client executives and technical teams to identify and prioritize high-value use cases.
- Design applied AI architectures spanning models, applications, data integration, security, privacy, and governance.
- Guide customers through technical evaluations, proofs of concept, workshops, and production deployments.
- Coordinate support from deployment engineering, security specialists, and product teams while maintaining accountability for technical outcomes.
- Share field learnings and customer insights with internal research and product development groups.
What you need
- Significant background in customer-facing technical roles such as solutions architecture, solutions engineering, or technical account leadership.
- Demonstrated experience guiding enterprise organizations from initial evaluation through production adoption.
- Strong foundation in software and cloud architecture, including APIs, distributed systems, identity management, and data security.
- Solid understanding of modern artificial intelligence systems, frontier large language models, agentic applications, and retrieval workflows.
- Ability to prototype solutions and work directly with programming languages and software development kits like Python or JavaScript.
- Meaningful expertise or strong fluency regarding the operational and technical needs of healthcare and life sciences organizations.
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Commission
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What is the salary range for this role?
The salary ranges from $221K to $278K, alongside offered equity and commission.
Where is the position located?
The job is based in San Francisco.
What technologies and tools will I work with?
You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions, while working with tools and languages such as Python and JavaScript.
What does the team actually do?
The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. They work specifically with healthcare and life sciences organizations to identify where artificial intelligence can create value and design secure, scalable solutions.