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Critical Facilities Lead, Compute Infrastructure

OpenAI · US - Remote

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Frontier labremotelead$159k–$285k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead commissioning and bring-up of next-gen AI data centers at scale.
  • Bridge construction and hardware teams to integrate critical infrastructure.
  • Operate mission-critical facilities powering cutting-edge AI workloads.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Seasoned data center operator who thrives at the construction-to-operations handoff and cares deeply about reliability at scale. Hands-on, process-driven leader excited to keep cutting-edge AI infrastructure running flawlessly.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in large-scale data center facility operations, commissioning, or critical infrastructure engineering
  • Deeply familiar with liquid-cooled IT systems, including CDU and in-rack/in-row manifold design, bring-up, and servicing
  • Enjoy defining and improving infrastructure processes at the intersection of construction, hardware, and operations
  • Comfortable owning infrastructure from deployment to long-term maintenance and failure recovery
  • Experience responding to field issues and managing reliability through well-defined operational processes

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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