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Principal AI Ecosystem Architect - OpenAI/Anthropic
Elasticsearch INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 20 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 8 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Elasticsearch INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Principal Consulting Architect” (Software Developers) in CA: $224k–$224k, median $224k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 20 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 8 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is The Role Elastic is expanding the Ecosystem Architects team focused on the most consequential AI providers in the AI Ecosystem — OpenAI and Anthropic. We are looking for a builder, an architect who will own the technical strategy and relationships with both. In this hands-on individual contributor role you'd be driving the co-build strategy through deeper integrations with both ecosystems, influencing Elastic Product strategy, building the prototypes, and shaping the GTM content that would help customers bring frontier intelligence to unstructured data. As the AI Ecosystem Architect you will build, manage and own the technical relationships end-to-end — bringing both technical depth and the credibility that comes from having built things yourself. "The deep integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic are at the center of how Elastic thinks Frontier AI will shape enterprises when brought to unstructured enterprise data. Elasticsearch is purpose-built to solve the retrieval problem for AI agents, and the person in this role will influence the most consequential decisions in how Elastic technology integrates with these ecosystems." — Global VP, Head of Business & Corporate Development, Elastic What You Will Be Doing You will drive technical integration, shape product strategy, and co-create the go-to-market content that helps customers put these partnerships to work. You will be BUILDING • Driving the co-build strategy with Elastic's Product team — identifying and prioritizing the integrations that deepen both partnerships and ensuring Elastic's retrieval, security, and observability capabilities are integrated in how OpenAI and Anthropic build for the enterprise. • Serving as Elastic's technical voice inside both ecosystems — working closely with partner and product teams at OpenAI and Anthropic so that Elasticsearch's role in agentic workflows is well understood and well represented. • Building reference architectures and working prototypes that demonstrate Elasticsearch as the retrieval layer for agentic AI — giving developers building with OpenAI and Anthropic platforms a clear path to grounded, governed context. • Working with Elastic's Security and Observability product teams to drive integration patterns and showcases that demonstrate how frontier AI enhances Elastic's capabilities. • Influencing Elastic's product roadmap with the technical signal you gather inside both ecosystems — what partner teams are building, what customers are asking for, and where the gaps are. LEADING • Owning the technical and strategic relationships with partner-facing counterparts at OpenAI and Anthropic. • Being Elastic's named point of contact inside both ecosystems and at Elastic — the person that partner teams reach for when they want to understand how Elastic fits, what's possible, and what's next. • Building and managing a regular executive-level cadence to align on progress, priorities, and where investment should be focused. • Keeping Elastic's internal teams — product, engineering, field, and alliances — connected to what's happening inside both partner ecosystems, and vice versa. EVANGELIZING • C