# New Energy Tech and Sustainability Lead

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $185k – $285k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Power Systems, Low-Carbon Energy, Grid Flexibility, Clean Firm Power, Advanced Storage, Data Center Energy Strategy, Clean Energy Procurement, Infrastructure Sustainability, Emerging Energy Technologies, Regulatory Compliance, Policy Analysis, Pilot Deployment, Cross-Functional Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-07-13

> Lead infrastructure sustainability and emerging energy technology strategy for OpenAI's AI data centers. Evaluate and deploy scalable low-carbon solutions balancing reliability, cost, carbon, and regulatory needs; requires 15+ years in energy tech or clean power.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain OpenAI’s infrastructure sustainability strategy across power, data center growth, emerging energy technology, and related site-readiness workstreams.
- Evaluate emerging energy solutions such as clean firm power, advanced storage, grid flexibility, low-carbon backup power, heat reuse, water-related energy efficiency, and other scalable technologies.
- Identify pilot opportunities and deployment pathways that can move promising energy technologies from concept to commercially and operationally credible execution.
- Translate technical options into clear reliability, cost, schedule, carbon, regulatory, and operational implications for infrastructure decision-making.
- Partner with energy regulatory, policy, procurement, engineering, deployment, finance, legal, and site-readiness teams to align technology and sustainability choices with project needs.
- Coordinate with OpenAI’s central sustainability function to ensure infrastructure-specific goals, metrics, reporting, and commitments remain consistent.
- Track external market, policy, utility, and technology developments that could affect OpenAI’s ability to scale resilient, low-carbon infrastructure.
- Build repeatable evaluation frameworks, partner criteria, and execution playbooks for sustainability and emerging energy technology initiatives.

## Requirements
- 15+ years in energy technology, infrastructure sustainability, clean energy procurement, power markets, data center energy strategy, utility programs, or related roles.
- Strong understanding of power systems, low-carbon energy, grid constraints, infrastructure reliability, and the practical requirements of large-scale deployment.
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies, structuring pilots, or moving early-stage solutions toward commercial implementation.
- Ability to balance sustainability objectives with reliability, cost, schedule, regulatory, and operational constraints.
- Proven cross-functional leadership across technical, commercial, policy, and executive stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical, written communication, and executive-summary skills.

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