Compute Infrastructure Strategy Lead

OpenAI

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Research Services 👥 201 employees 📍 San Francisco, CA, US Est. 2015

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with…

Job Overview

We're seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to join our Industrial Compute team at OpenAI. This systems engineer position will focus on delivering step-function improvements in cost, capability, capacity, reliability, and time-to-ready across OpenAI's infrastructure and compute platform. The role is based in San Francisco, CA with a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offers relocation assistance to new employees.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Management

• Own cross-stack programs end-to-end: define the problem, design the approach, prove it quickly, and carry the result into production
• Drive rapid clarity on goals, criteria, risks, metrics for complex technical problems without adding heavy process
• Work closely with engineering, operations, and (when needed) finance, research, product, and external vendors to align decisions and deliver useful infrastructure at massive scale
• Own outcomes end-to-end, and move fast to validate approaches—using bounded pilots when useful—while balancing total cost, performance, and operability
• Collaborate with engineering to incubate and execute on the technical decisions that unlock scale

Requirements

Technical Qualifications

• Deep technical experience in infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, TPM, or product development
• Experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional infrastructure work to tangible outcomes without waiting for perfect information
• Strong communication skills to clearly align partners and make sound calls on cost, performance, and operability
• Preference for measured proofs and execution over slideware
• Ability to switch between strategy and hands-on work to fully own projects end-to-end

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Benefits

OpenAI offers competitive compensation packages, relocation assistance for new employees, and a hybrid work model with three days in the office per week. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Compensation

Compensation Range: $393K