Compute Infrastructure Critical Facilities Manager
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead mission-critical facilities operations, operational readiness, commissioning transitions, incident response, and reliability improvements across AI compute campuses. You will manage vendors and facilities personnel, coordinate infrastructure changes, monitor capacity and risk, and establish scalable operating procedures and maintenance programs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience operating mission-critical facilities data centers industrial infrastructure or large-scale technical operations
- Knowledge of electrical distribution generators UPS cooling systems and building controls
- Experience with commissioning operational readiness or infrastructure turnover
- Experience leading facilities operations teams contractors and vendors
- Experience developing maintenance strategies operating procedures and reliability programs
- Experience with hyperscale cloud AI HPC or mission-critical data centers is preferred
- Experience with liquid cooling and high-density compute deployments is preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day operations of mission-critical facility infrastructure
- Own operational readiness for campus deployments and expansion
- Transition facilities from construction and startup into steady-state operations
- Develop and improve operating procedures maintenance programs and response plans
- Lead infrastructure incident response and recovery
- Drive root-cause analysis and corrective action programs
- Manage vendors contractors and service providers
- Coordinate infrastructure changes and maintenance activities
- Monitor facility performance operational risk and capacity utilization
- Support staffing training and development of facilities personnel
- Ensure compliance with safety environmental and operational standards
- Establish scalable operational processes
Benefits
- Medical dental and vision insurance for employees and families with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays paid office closures and paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
