Land and Data Center Development
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
Projects
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will help secure land and data-center capacity for compute infrastructure. You will source and evaluate opportunities, structure and negotiate agreements, coordinate diligence with partners, evaluate deal economics, and drive transactions through execution and handoff.
Requirements
- Strong commercial real estate development experience in land acquisition, site control, and feasibility
- Record of sourcing, structuring, and negotiating complex real estate agreements
- Ability to work across land transactions and data-center leasing
- Sound commercial judgment and deal economics assessment
- Experience working across legal, finance, engineering, and operations teams
- Clear communication and ownership of complex negotiations
Responsibilities
- Lead sourcing, evaluation, and execution of land acquisition opportunities
- Support data-center leasing and real estate acquisitions
- Build relationships with landowners, brokers, developers, and data-center counterparties
- Structure and negotiate land acquisition, site-control, and lease agreements
- Coordinate diligence with legal, finance, engineering, and development partners
- Evaluate deal economics and present recommendations
- Manage the transaction pipeline
- Drive transactions through execution and handoff
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- 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
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
