Hardware Operations Engineer
OpenAI · San Francisco · Seattle · US - Remote
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$157k–$302k
At a glance
Highlights
- Serve as technical authority for hardware reliability at flagship AI campus.
- Support large-scale AI campuses powering frontier training and inference.
- Build operational standards scaling across future Stargate campuses.
What they offer
- equity
Ideal candidate
Hands-on datacenter hardware leader who thrives in production environments and loves digging into complex failures. You partner well across teams and care about building reliable, scalable operations for cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
Requirements
- 8+ years supporting large-scale datacenter hardware infrastructure
- Deep expertise with server platforms, GPU systems, storage and rack integration
- Strong experience diagnosing complex hardware failures in production
- Experience leading root cause analysis and corrective actions
- Understanding of hardware reliability and fleet-health management
- Ability to operate independently in high-priority production environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience developing operational processes and technical documentation
- Ability to travel occasionally for new campus deployments
- remote policy
- onsite 5 days per week
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