Technical Program Manager, Compute Infrastructure
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 view of all GPU capacity entering the fleet, including what arrives, where, and when it becomes usable. You will build the tools and data behind that signal with Engineering, partner with Capacity Planning, coordinate physical and logical readiness for new sites and clusters across cloud and bare metal, establish delivery scorecards, and manage critical paths across concurrent programs.
Requirements
- 5+ years leading major technical programs such as compute infrastructure or hyperscaler deployments
- Degree in a hard science or engineering discipline, or equivalent engineering expertise
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
- Familiarity with bare metal GPU capacity provisioning, inventory, and planning systems
- Experience working with Capacity Planning teams
- Experience defining requirements for operational data and internal platforms
- Understanding of site readiness, power and cooling, commissioning
- Clear communication with technical and business stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Own the GPU supply signal across the fleet
- Build and scale the tools, data, and platform behind the supply signal
- Partner with Capacity Planning on supply and demand management and scenario analysis
- Coordinate physical readiness with Data Center Infrastructure and cloud providers
- Lead logical readiness across CPU, storage, network, GPU, and Kubernetes resources
- Drive deployment across cloud and bare metal environments
- Establish delivery scorecards for cloud providers and internal infrastructure teams
- Improve reliability and repeatability of cluster bringup
- Manage critical paths across concurrent programs
- Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs to stakeholders
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
- 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 for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
