Hardware Systems Planning Lead (1P)
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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About the Role
You will own the integrated demand, supply and deployment plan for 1P AI infrastructure systems, connecting demand and site power availability to system configurations, XPU needs and supply commitments. You will lead weekly reviews, publish delta reports, track forecast-versus-commit gaps, and drive recovery plans with owners and dates. You will partner across Hardware Engineering, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Deployment and Finance, and build scalable planning models and reporting standards.
Requirements
- Significant experience in hardware systems planning, supply planning, program management, operations or a related role supporting complex high-volume technology products or infrastructure
- Strong understanding of dependencies among hardware demand, component supply, manufacturing capacity, system configurations, site readiness, power availability and deployment schedules
- Experience building and managing integrated demand-and-supply plans at weekly granularity
- Ability to pressure-test whether a plan is executable
- Exceptional analytical skills
- Strong program leadership and cross-functional accountability
- Effective communication with cross-functional teams and senior leadership
- Comfortable in fast-moving, high-ambiguity environments
- High ownership and sound judgment
- Preferred: experience with AI infrastructure, hyperscale data centers or accelerator systems
- Preferred: experience with semiconductors, server or rack manufacturing, or complex hardware supply chains
Responsibilities
- Own the integrated planning process for 1P hardware systems
- Maintain a decision-ready supply plan showing changes, gaps and recovery actions
- Validate that the end-to-end supply plan is executable
- Lead a weekly deployment and supply review
- Publish and maintain a weekly delta report
- Track forecast-versus-commit gaps and drive recovery plans with named owners and dates
- Coordinate the biweekly end-to-end supply picture update for leadership
- Partner with Hardware Engineering and Infrastructure to update system and XPU requirements
- Pressure-test commitments with manufacturing partners and suppliers via Supply Chain
- Anticipate supply and deployment risks and recommend tradeoffs to senior leaders
- Build scalable planning models, reporting standards and operating mechanisms
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
