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Applied AI Architect, Retail

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Senior technical owner for a portfolio of retail customers, acting as the 'CTO of your book of business' to shape AI strategy and guide adoption from pre-sales to production.

Role type

Senior IC Applied AI Architect (Customer-facing)

Builds

Secure and scalable AI solutions using OpenAI models (ChatGPT Enterprise, API, Codex) for retail and consumer businesses.

Domain

Retail / Consumer / Enterprise AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Customer-facing technical leadership, enterprise AI strategy, software and cloud architecture, modern AI systems (LLMs, agentic apps), prototyping, stakeholder management, retail industry fluency

Preferred skills

Experience guiding organizations from evaluation to production adoption, Python/JavaScript proficiency, ability to translate ambiguity into technical narratives

Technologies

OpenAI API, ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, agentic AI solutions, Python, JavaScript

Responsibilities

Own the technical account plan and milestones; lead discovery with executives to prioritize use cases; develop applied AI architectures; guide customers through evaluations and prototypes; coordinate support from engineering and specialist teams; track adoption and production readiness; share field learnings with product and research teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic account ownership

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