Data Center Compute Infrastructure

Details

OpenAI’s Compute organization turns ambitious AI research into real-world capability by delivering the compute infrastructure behind our most advanced models. The team works across software, hardware, facilities, operations, and engineering disciplines to make enormous amounts of compute available, reliable, and efficient.

As the demand for frontier AI grows, so does the complexity of the systems required to support it. Scaling this infrastructure means solving problems that cut across distributed systems, ML infrastructure, GPU fleets, power, cooling, networking, manufacturing, supply chain, and data center delivery.

Our work is focused on expanding the compute foundation that enables OpenAI to train more capable models, including systems like GPT-5.6, and make frontier AI available to more people, products, and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Help build, scale, and operate OpenAI’s global compute infrastructure.
• Solve complex problems across software, hardware, manufacturing supply chain, and data center systems.
• Improve the reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability of critical infrastructure.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to bring new compute capacity online quickly and reliably.
• Identify bottlenecks across technical, operational, and physical systems, and develop practical solutions.
• Build tools, processes, systems, or infrastructure that improve execution at scale.
• Contribute to the long-term architecture and operational maturity of OpenAI’s compute footprint.

Requirements

• Experience building, scaling, or operating complex technical systems.
• Comfortable working on ambiguous, high-impact problems where the path forward is not always defined.
• Able to collaborate across disciplines, including software, hardware, operations, and physical infrastructure.
• Strong technical judgment and a bias toward execution.
• Commitment to reliability, speed, safety, and operational excellence.
• Excitement for building infrastructure at unprecedented scale and directly supporting frontier AI development and deployment.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, distributed systems, GPU clusters, or cloud-scale platforms.
• Experience with hardware systems, manufacturing, supply chain, data center development, or large capital infrastructure projects.
• Domain expertise in civil, controls, mechanical, hardware, electrical, thermal, power, networking, or facilities engineering.
• Experience bringing new technical platforms, data centers, factories, or large-scale systems from concept to production.
• Experience operating in fast-moving environments where technical depth and execution speed both matter.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company emphasizes safety and inclusive perspectives. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides background checks in accordance with applicable law. It also provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Base pay range listed for the role, with total compensation including equity and possible performance-related bonus(es).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks).
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
• 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid office closures, plus paid sick or safe time as required by law.
• 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 as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.