Technical Program Manager, Global Infrastructure Planning
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 CPU capacity planning and management across Research and Compute, leading integrated planning for CPU, storage, and network capacity. You will turn forecasts into supply and allocation plans, drive efficiency programs, and work with cloud providers, Finance, and engineering on capacity orders and decisions. This role is hybrid in San Francisco, 3 days per week in the office.
Requirements
- 5+ years in technical program management, capacity planning, or infrastructure management
- Experience with demand forecasting, supply planning, and allocations for CPU or cloud compute
- Technical depth in infrastructure domains across CPUs, GPUs, storage, and networks
- Understanding of workload architecture and resource needs
- Experience across multiple cloud providers
- Built or improved capacity planning tools, data models, or automation
- Delivered measurable improvements in utilization or cost
- Ability to lead decisions across engineering, research, Finance, and external providers
Responsibilities
- Lead CPU demand planning across Research, Compute, and application infrastructure
- Translate workload growth and GPU plans into CPU, storage, and network requirements
- Reconcile supply with demand, model constrained scenarios, and drive allocation decisions
- Partner with network teams on bandwidth and connectivity plans
- Challenge assumptions and influence technical decisions on resource sizing and placement
- Drive fleet efficiency programs to reclaim capacity and rightsize workloads
- Scale integrated capacity planning tools and workflows
- Shape capacity orders, commitments, and renewals with cloud providers, Finance, and Procurement
- Align capacity plans with deployment milestones
- Give leadership clear views of demand, supply, tradeoffs, and risks
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
