Hardware Systems Planning Lead (1P)

The role

The Planning Lead owns the integrated demand, supply, and deployment plan for 1P AI infrastructure systems. This role connects infrastructure demand and site power availability to system configurations, XPU requirements, and hardware supply commitments.

What you will do

• Own the integrated planning process for 1P hardware systems.
• Maintain a decision-ready supply plan showing changes, impacts, and recovery actions.
• Validate that the end-to-end supply plan is executable.
• Lead a weekly deployment and supply review.
• Publish and maintain a weekly delta report.
• Track forecast-versus-commit gaps and drive recovery plans.
• Coordinate biweekly end-to-end supply picture updates for leadership.
• Partner with Hardware Engineering and Infrastructure teams to update requirements.
• Work with the Supply Chain team to pressure-test commitments and establish recovery paths.
• Build scalable planning models, reporting standards, and operating mechanisms.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in hardware systems planning, supply planning, program management, operations, or a related role supporting complex, high-volume technology products or infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of dependencies among hardware demand, component supply, manufacturing capacity, system configurations, site readiness, power availability, and deployment schedules.
• Experience building and managing integrated demand-and-supply plans at weekly granularity.
• Demonstrated ability to pressure-test whether a plan is executable.
• Exceptional analytical skills to translate complex datasets into insights, decisions, and actions.
• Strong program leadership including establishing operating cadences and driving cross-functional accountability.
• Demonstrated experience communicating effectively across cross-functional teams and with senior leadership.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-ambiguity environment.
• High ownership, sound judgment, and a bias toward surfacing risks early and driving them through resolution.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, or accelerator systems.
• Experience with semiconductors, server or rack manufacturing, or complex hardware supply chains.

About the company

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