Technical Program Manager, Research Compute Services
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'll join an engineer-first TPM team and build and own the tools, data and platform that turn research plans into concrete compute demand and manage fleet allocations. This is hands-on: you'll work with code and data alongside researchers and engineers to prototype solutions, automate workflows and lead delivery.
Requirements
- Strong engineering foundation
- Led complex technical programs involving large-scale compute, distributed systems or infrastructure
- Practical experience with capacity planning and compute allocations
- Built tools, data systems or automation, comfortable working with code and data
- Familiarity with Kubernetes deployments and scheduling
- Understanding of optimization solvers
- Clear communication
Responsibilities
- Work directly with researchers and translate their needs into compute services, tooling and scheduling improvements
- Own the roadmap and delivery of tools, data and platform for demand capture and allocation
- Develop systems that translate research plans into concrete capacity needs
- Partner with Capacity Planning, Research and infrastructure teams to reconcile demand and supply
- Create data models, views and automation and improve self-service compute workflows
- Partner with engineers on Kubernetes deployments and scheduling systems
- Evaluate optimization solvers to improve fleet utilization
- Identify bottlenecks, unused capacity and manual work and build durable improvements
- Lead technical delivery across teams
- Communicate progress and tradeoffs to teams and leadership
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
- 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
