AI Success Engineer, Government

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · Washington, DC · OpenAI for Gov

AI Success Engineer role focused on post-sales customer engagement, driving adoption, technical integration, and value realization of OpenAI's AI platform for government customers. This role requires deep technical understanding of OpenAI products, customer advisory skills, and program management to guide customers from initial deployment to scaled enterprise adoption.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the technical relationship for post-sale customers and act as their trusted advisor on deployment, adoption, and value realization
  2. Own account health, adoption velocity, and ongoing technical deployment and success across your portfolio
  3. Be an expert in all of OpenAI products across our API and agentic platform, Codex, ChatGPT Enterprise, and more and conduct technical enablement and configuration sessions across them
  4. Identify and validate use cases by embedding with customer teams to understand workflows and pain points
  5. Lead account level coordination across multiple workstreams, including new product activation, change management, and customer rollout and deployment planning

Skills

Required

  • Technical customer facing roles (TAM, consulting, SA, delivery)
  • Deep operational knowledge of OpenAI products, APIs, SDKs, connectors
  • Explain model behavior, limitations, technical tradeoffs, embeddings, retrieval augmentation, fine-tuning, custom model usage
  • Authentication and enterprise security concepts (SSO, domain verification, encryption)
  • Enterprise compliance frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.)
  • Coding languages like Python or JavaScript
  • REST APIs, SDKs, automation, CI/CD, containers, cloud platforms
  • Translate technical concepts into business language
  • Driving technical deployments with hands-on customer work
  • Owning impactful adoption and value for large enterprise customers
  • Embedding with customers to map workflows, identify requirements, diagnose adoption challenges
  • Project and program management
  • Lead multi workstream initiatives
  • Thought partner for C-level stakeholders
  • Dive deep with technical teams
  • High ownership
  • Manage fast decision making, context switching, dynamic customer needs

Nice to have

  • Experience in government customer engagements

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience in technical customer facing roles
  • Deep, hands-on operational knowledge of OpenAI product capabilities, APIs, SDKs, connectors, and common integration patterns
  • Practical experience with authentication and enterprise security concepts (SSO, domain verification, encryption, and enterprise compliance frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.))
  • Can show a strong record of driving technical deployments with hands-on on customer work and owning impactful adoption and value for large enterprise customers with complex environments and multiple stakeholders

Other signals

  • customer adoption
  • technical integration
  • value realization
  • product delivery
  • use case identification