Technical Program Manager, Applied Infrastructure

The role

This Technical Program Manager will drive critical infrastructure programs including compute capacity planning, process transformation, and cost optimization. You will partner across engineering, product, and finance teams to ensure infrastructure meets current and future demand.

What you will do

• Serve as the DRI for complex infrastructure programs spanning CPU planning, orchestration, and resource management domains.
• Build and operationalize systems to capture demand signals and model future capacity needs.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Product and Finance teams to forecast infrastructure usage patterns.
• Lead cost attribution and quota enforcement programs.
• Drive simplification and standardization of infrastructure tooling and processes.
• Drive cross functional programs to evolve infrastructure to support new growth and scale.
• Work with external vendors and partners to manage delivery schedules, capacity projections, and cost growth.
• Communicate project risks, progress, and key decisions to technical and executive stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience leading large-scale, technical infrastructure programs, especially in compute resource planning, system scalability, or platform engineering.
• Understand how cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and foundational infra components come together to power complex products.
• Are structured and detail-oriented.
• Excel at building durable processes, driving alignment across teams, and communicating clearly across technical and business audiences.
• Can navigate complex and ambiguous problems at the intersection of infrastructure and business.

Nice to have

• Have worked with hyperscalers or cloud providers (e.g. Azure) to manage infrastructure delivery and planning cycles.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.