Data Center Compute Infrastructure
Build, scale, and operate OpenAI's global compute infrastructure for frontier AI models like GPT-5.6. Solve complex cross-disciplinary problems spanning distributed systems, hardware, ML infrastructure, power/cooling, manufacturing, supply chain, and data center development at unprecedented scale.
About the job
Key Responsibilities
- Help build, scale, and operate OpenAI’s global compute infrastructure.
- Solve complex problems across software, hardware, manufacturing supply chain, and data center systems.
- Improve the reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability of critical infrastructure.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to bring new compute capacity online quickly and reliably.
- Identify bottlenecks across technical, operational, and physical systems, and develop practical solutions.
- Build tools, processes, systems, or infrastructure that improve execution at scale.
- Contribute to the long-term architecture and operational maturity of OpenAI’s compute footprint.
Qualifications
- Experience building, scaling, or operating complex technical systems.
- Enjoy working on ambiguous, high-impact problems where the path forward is not always defined.
- Comfortable collaborating across disciplines, including software, hardware, operations, and physical infrastructure.
- Strong technical judgment and a bias toward execution.
- Care deeply about reliability, speed, safety, and operational excellence.
- Excited by the challenge of building infrastructure at unprecedented scale.
- Work directly supports the development and deployment of frontier AI.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, distributed systems, GPU clusters, or cloud-scale platforms.
- Worked on hardware systems, manufacturing, supply chain, data center development, or large capital infrastructure projects.
- Domain expertise in civil, controls, mechanical, hardware, electrical, thermal, power, networking, or facilities engineering.
- Helped bring new technical platforms, data centers, factories, or large-scale systems from concept to production.
- Experience operating in fast-moving environments where technical depth and execution speed both matter.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Gpu Clusters, High Performance Computing, AI Infrastructure, Data Center Development, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Networking, Facilities Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Cloud Scale Platforms
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