AI Success Engineer - Healthcare & Life Sciences

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA

2d•$162,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

OpenAI’s HLS AI Success Engineering team partners with the world’s most ambitious healthcare and life sciences organizations to translate cutting edge AI into real patient outcomes. We guide customers from first deployment through scaled enterprise adoption. Our work spans technical integration and enablement, workflow transformation, and sustained program and product delivery. Our customers range from fast-growing healthcare and life sciences innovators to the world’s largest biopharma, medical technology, healthcare provider, payer, and research organizations. Every engagement is an opportunity to shape how AI accelerates scientific innovation, transforms healthcare delivery, and improves patient outcomes. This role sits at the center of our mission. The AI Success Engineer role is the primary post-sales point of contact for OpenAI’s most important customers. You are responsible for driving account health and adoption, ensuring technical readiness, identifying new use cases, and delivering measurable value to our customers with OpenAI’s ambitiously growing platform. This role blends technical depth, program management, customer advisory, and product influence. You will partner deeply with customer teams, map workflows, lead configuration, oversee deployment plans, and guide customers toward high impact use cases that showcase the full value of our platform. You will work closely with Sales, Solutions Architecture, Product, and Research to ensure the customer experience is connected and successful across every touchpoint. Success in this role means accelerating adoption, increasing customer activation depth, guiding strategic use cases that get to production, and helping customers demonstrate tangible impact. This role is based in San Francisco or NYC, with a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week in the office, or can be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S. We also provide relocation support for new employees.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in technical customer facing roles such as technical account management, technical GenAI consulting or deployment roles, solutions architecture, technical delivery leadership, customer architecture or engineering, or other deep technical enterprise adoption work
Meaningful experience working with healthcare or life-sciences organizations - such as providers, payers, biopharma, medical-device companies, CROs, or health-technology organizations - and an understanding of their data, workflows, regulatory environments, and operating models.
Scientific or clinical training in a relevant field such as medicine, biology, chemistry, pharmacy, biomedical engineering, or public health, with a passion for applying AI responsibly to advance scientific innovation and improve patient outcomes.
Deep, hands-on operational knowledge of OpenAI product capabilities, APIs, SDKs, connectors, and common integration patterns and able to explain model behavior, limitations, technical tradeoffs, embeddings, retrieval augmentation, and approaches to fine-tuning or custom model usage.
Practical experience deploying technology in regulated enterprise environments, including authentication, access controls, encryption, data classification, retention, auditability, and incident response.
Working knowledge of healthcare and life-sciences requirements - including HIPAA/HITECH and BAAs, global health-data privacy, and, where relevant, GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, clinical research, pharmacovigilance, or medical-device regulation - with the judgment to engage Legal, Privacy, Security, Quality, and Regulatory specialists when appropriate.
Understanding and familiarity with coding languages like Python or JavaScript, and comfort with REST APIs, SDKs, automation, CI/CD, containers, and cloud platforms.
Can translate technical concepts into clear business language and help customers understand the strategic impact of AI technologies
Are comfortable embedding with customers to map workflows, identify requirements, and diagnose adoption challenges
Have excellent project and program management instincts and can lead multi workstream initiatives with clarity and structure
Enjoy being a thought partner for C level stakeholders while also diving deep with technical teams
Operate with high ownership and can manage fast decision making, context switching, and dynamic customer needs
Have 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

Responsibilities

Lead the technical relationship for post-sale customers and act as their trusted advisor on deployment, adoption, and value realization
Own account health, adoption velocity, and ongoing technical deployment and success across your portfolio
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
Identify and validate use cases by embedding with customer teams to understand workflows and pain points
Lead account level coordination across multiple workstreams, including new product activation, change management, and customer rollout and deployment planning
Build strong relationships with executive sponsors and technical stakeholders and help align business goals with OpenAI capabilities
Translate customer objectives into an actionable adoption roadmap with clear sequencing, milestones, and KPIs
Partner with Solutions Architecture, Product, Engineering and Research by surfacing customer feedback, field patterns, and technical blockers and act as a cross functional navigator who keeps teams aligned, informed, and moving toward customer outcomes
Guide value realization and measure impact through baselines, KPI definition, and post deployment reporting
Facilitate workshops on use case design, adoption best practices, champion building, and internal enablement
Help drive expansions by identifying high leverage opportunities where OpenAI’s platform can power new workflows or lines of business
Serve as the technical advisor for existing customer implementations by guiding and optimizing account setup, configuration, etc.