Technical Program Manager, Global Infrastructure Planning

The role

You will own CPU capacity planning and management across Research and Compute. You will lead integrated planning for CPU, storage, and network capacity across the global fleet to support pretraining, research, and application infrastructure.

What you will do

• Lead CPU demand planning across Research, Compute, and application infrastructure.
• Translate workload growth and GPU fleet plans into integrated CPU, storage, and network requirements.
• Reconcile current and incoming supply with demand and drive allocation decisions.
• Partner with network engineering and deployment teams to translate regional demand into bandwidth and connectivity plans.
• Help teams evaluate resource sizing, regional placement, and storage choices.
• Drive fleet efficiency programs to reclaim unused capacity and improve utilization.
• Scale integrated capacity planning across CPU, storage, and network.
• Partner with cloud providers, Finance, Procurement, and engineering to shape capacity orders and commitments.
• Align capacity plans with cluster and application deployment milestones.
• Provide teams and leadership with views of demand, supply, and risks.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical program management, capacity planning, capacity engineering, or infrastructure management.
• Direct experience managing demand forecasting, supply planning, allocations, and capacity operations for CPU or cloud compute infrastructure.
• Technical depth in one or more infrastructure domains.
• Understanding of how workload architecture drives CPU, memory, storage, network, and regional placement needs.
• Experience working across multiple cloud providers.
• Experience building or improving capacity planning tools, data models, or automation.
• Experience delivering measurable improvements in infrastructure utilization or cost.

Nice to have

• Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AGI.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

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. The Compute Infrastructure team runs the GPU fleet and large compute clusters that support OpenAI’s research, ChatGPT, and the API.