Tech Lead, Deployment & Operations — Custom Infrastructure

Highlights

• Lead deployment of custom AI silicon into OpenAI's supercomputing data centers.
• Own hardware bring-up through fleet reliability for next-gen frontier systems.
• Drive architecture of future ML systems from lab validation to scale.

What they offer

• Equity

Ideal candidate

Deeply technical operator-leader who thrives in ambiguity and owns custom hardware from lab to fleet scale. You mentor engineers, align cross-functional teams, and care about reliable, repeatable operations at scale.

Requirements

• 8+ years engineering experience in hardware systems, infrastructure, data center deployment, production operations, systems engineering, silicon bring-up, or related domains
• Strong technical depth in hardware deployment, data center operations, rack-scale systems, silicon bring-up, systems validation, fleet operations, reliability, or HW/SW integration
• Experience bringing complex hardware systems from development or validation into production environments
• Experience with deployment planning, operational readiness, incident response, debugging, and root-cause analysis
• Experience building tooling, automation, observability, or operational processes for deployment quality and fleet reliability
• Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and lead senior technical talent
• Strong written and verbal communication in high-urgency, cross-functional environments