White Space Manager, Network & Data Halls

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
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About the Role

You'll own the planning, coordination, and readiness of data center white-space environments, connecting facility delivery with compute deployment. You'll coordinate rack layouts, power distribution, cooling, cabling, and containment, build installation sequences and readiness gates, verify field conditions against designs, drive risk mitigation, and create repeatable standards that scale across campuses. Travel is about 50%.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience delivering or operating data center white space, critical facilities, compute deployments, or mission-critical fit-outs
  • Strong understanding of racks, power distribution, structured cabling, airflow management, liquid cooling, controls interfaces, and deployment sequencing
  • Demonstrated ownership of installation readiness, field coordination, quality, safety, and handoff
  • Experience interpreting construction documents, rack layouts, one-lines, mechanical diagrams, schedules, and commissioning records
  • Ability to manage competing dependencies in an active construction or production environment
  • Strong communication with engineers, contractors, vendors, and operations leaders
  • Willingness to travel regularly (50%)

Responsibilities

  • Own white-space planning and readiness from design development through rack installation, testing, activation, and handoff
  • Coordinate rack elevations, floor layouts, clearances, containment, busway or RPP distribution, cabling pathways, and cooling connections
  • Translate compute deployment forecasts into space, power, cooling, network, labor, tooling, and material requirements
  • Develop installation sequences, readiness gates, turnover criteria, punch-list processes, and escalation paths
  • Partner with design, construction, commissioning, networking, hardware operations, safety, logistics, and vendors
  • Verify field conditions against approved designs and maintain as-built, capacity, asset, and readiness records
  • Identify risks to installation, energization, cooling, network readiness, or schedule and drive mitigations
  • Create repeatable white-space standards, checklists, metrics, and operating mechanisms

Benefits

  • Equity
  • 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 for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
  • Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees, up to 15 days for non-exempt
  • 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