Industrial Compute

The role

This person will help build, scale, and operate OpenAI's global compute infrastructure. They will solve complex problems across software, hardware, manufacturing supply chain, and data center systems.

What you will do

• 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.

Required qualifications

• Experience building, scaling, or operating complex technical systems.
• Enjoy working on ambiguous, high-impact problems where the path forward is not always defined.
• Comfortable collaborating across disciplines, including software, hardware, operations, and physical infrastructure.
• Strong technical judgment and a bias toward execution.
• Care deeply about reliability, speed, safety, and operational excellence.
• Excited by the challenge of building infrastructure at unprecedented scale.
• Want work to directly support the development and deployment of frontier AI.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, distributed systems, GPU clusters, or cloud-scale platforms.
• Worked on 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.
• Helped bring 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.

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through their products.