# Data Center Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager (Network and Whitespace)

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $257k – $327k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Network Engineering, Data Center Infrastructure, Program Management, Risk Registers, Dependency Mapping, Commissioning, Construction Coordination, Controls Systems, Telemetry, Rack Deployment, Ot/It Interfaces, Hyperscale Data Centers, Hpc, Colocation, Cloud Service Providers
**Posted:** 2026-04-20

> Leads engineering programs for data center network integration, controls coordination, and whitespace facility deployment. Coordinates cross-functional teams, manages risks/dependencies, and drives execution from design through operations in high-stakes AI infrastructure environments. Requires 10+ years experience and strong technical fluency.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Translate assigned infrastructure goals into clear workstream charters, scopes, milestones, owners, decision points, success metrics, resourcing assumptions, and execution plans.
- Build and maintain integrated execution plans for assigned programs covering network, controls, data hall design, whitespace deployment, commissioning preparation, and deployment readiness.
- Support coordination across network, controls, structural, electrical, mechanical, hardware integration, construction, commissioning, and operations teams.
- Work with third-party design teams to define design milestones from concept through detailed design, including basis-of-design development, requirements tracking, design reviews, technical comment resolution, change management, and release readiness.
- Maintain the dependency map, issue log, risk register, action tracker, and decision log for assigned network and data hall workstreams.
- Coordinate design and review milestones for network rooms, non-production network services, OT / IT interface points, rack deployment assumptions, telemetry interfaces, controls dependencies, and data hall deployment packages.
- Track building-level network and support-space interfaces such as MPOE, MMR, Network Core, WAN, support rooms, and associated handoff points where they affect assigned programs.
- Support the network and controls DRIs by organizing reviews, resolving cross-discipline gaps, surfacing decisions, and keeping partner deliverables aligned to schedule.
- Manage partner and vendor deliverables such as submittals, interface packages, installation assumptions, turn-up plans, readiness evidence, field issue logs, and corrective action tracking.
- Drive readiness tracking for assigned 1P, 3P, colo, and selected CSP programs, including bring-up sequencing, installation readiness, access dependencies, maintenance windows, and first-use criteria.
- Prepare clear status updates, dashboards, and executive-ready summaries for the Industrial Compute lead and project stakeholders.
- Capture lessons learned from deployment and handoff activities and feed them back into playbooks, standards, and interface definitions.

## Qualifications
- Extensive experience in engineering program management, technical program management, mission-critical infrastructure delivery, data center deployment, or comparable complex execution environments, typically gained through **10+ years** of relevant work or equivalent depth of experience.
- Proven ability to operate within ambiguous, cross-functional engineering programs with shifting requirements, urgent timelines, and high-stakes operational risk, driving from concept through design, validation, procurement, construction, commissioning, deployment, and operations.
- Proven experience coordinating cross-functional programs that include network, controls, mechanical, electrical, structural, construction, commissioning, or operations participants.
- Strong technical fluency in at least several of the following areas: data hall deployment, non-production network, production network interfaces, controls coordination, telemetry, rack deployment, mission-critical support spaces, and infrastructure handoff.
- Experience building and maintaining integrated schedules, dependency maps, risk registers, decision logs, readiness trackers, and partner action plans.
- Experience coordinating external partners, vendors, design firms, delivery teams, or operators in a multi-party infrastructure environment.
- Ability to understand complex technical tradeoffs, ask strong questions, identify hidden dependencies, and help teams move toward clear decisions without needing to be the sole technical owner.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce crisp status reporting and drive action across matrixed teams.
- **Bachelor's degree** in Engineering, Computer Science, Construction Management, Operations, Business, or a related technical or quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

## Preferred Skills
- Direct experience with hyperscale data centers, AI infrastructure, HPC environments, colocation, or partner-delivered data center programs.
- Experience supporting high-density data hall or HAC-related design and deployment efforts.
- Experience with non-production network and support-service readiness for large-scale infrastructure deployments.
- Experience coordinating controls integration, network-room layouts, telemetry interfaces, rack deployment packages, or early operational handoff.
- Comfort with technical documentation such as one-line diagrams, P&IDs, controls sequences, network diagrams, equipment specifications, interface control documents, telemetry schemas, test procedures, and commissioning scripts.
- Familiarity with 1P, 3P, colocation, and cloud service provider delivery models and the differing owner-partner interface expectations in each.

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