Job Overview
Location
Remote - US
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering
Date Posted
July 16, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • The Clean Energy and New Technology Lead will own infrastructure clean energy and emerging energy technology strategy and execution, identifying and deploying scalable solutions that enable resilient, low-carbon compute and data center growth.
- • This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially.
- • The role will evaluate where emerging energy technologies can materially improve reliability, cost, carbon, speed, or resilience; translate those options into practical deployment pathways; and help ensure OpenAI’s infrastructure growth remains aligned with sustainability considerations.
- • Key responsibilities include evaluating emerging energy solutions, identifying pilot opportunities, translating technical options into clear reliability, cost, schedule, carbon, regulatory, and operational implications, partnering with energy regulatory, policy, procurement, engineering, deployment, finance, legal, and site-readiness teams, tracking external market, policy, utility, and technology developments, and building repeatable evaluation frameworks, partner criteria, and execution playbooks for sustainability and emerging energy technology initiatives.
🎯 Requirements
- • 15+ years in energy technology, infrastructure sustainability, clean energy procurement, power markets, data center energy strategy, utility programs, or related roles.
- • Strong understanding of power systems, low-carbon energy, grid constraints, infrastructure reliability, and the practical requirements of large-scale deployment.
- • Experience evaluating emerging technologies, structuring pilots, or moving early-stage solutions toward commercial implementation.
- • Ability to balance sustainability objectives with reliability, cost, schedule, regulatory, and operational constraints.
- • Proven cross-functional leadership across technical, commercial, policy, and executive stakeholders.
- • Excellent analytical, written communication, and executive-summary skills.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive salary
- • Comprehensive benefits package
- • Opportunity to work with a leading AI research and deployment company
- • Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- • Professional development opportunities
- • Flexible work arrangements
🏠Location
- • Remote - US
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About OpenAI, Inc.
OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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