Job Overview
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Product Management
Date Posted
April 22, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead end-to-end execution of CPU/GPU cluster activation, storage deployment, PoP bring-up, and WAN expansion programs to unlock OpenAI’s next-generation compute capacity.
- • Drive readiness to convert contracted infrastructure into schedulable production clusters by coordinating hardware, site, network, and vendor readiness across global facilities.
- • Build integrated schedules spanning procurement, logistics, installation, storage readiness, network turn-up, testing, and production handoff while managing risks and escalations.
- • Partner with engineering, operations, supply chain, and external vendors to align compute, storage, and networking dependencies before cluster activation.
- • Develop repeatable deployment playbooks, dashboards, and governance mechanisms to scale infrastructure deployment efficiency and reliability.
- • Communicate milestones, capacity forecasts, and critical escalations to senior leadership with strong executive communication skills.
- • Operate from rack-level implementation details through executive-level capacity planning in fast-moving, high-stakes environments.
🎯 Requirements
- • 8+ years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure deployment, network deployment, or data center operations.
- • Strong experience delivering programs involving compute, storage, networking, or large-scale infrastructure systems.
- • Working knowledge of servers, clusters, storage arrays, routers, switches, optics, and structured cabling.
- • Experience owning cross-functional programs across engineering, operations, supply chain, and external vendors.
- • Strong understanding of deployment lifecycles from planning and procurement through production handoff.
- • Ability to reason across physical infrastructure execution and logical systems architecture dependencies.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to work on mission-critical infrastructure powering frontier AI workloads at global scale.
- • Exposure to cutting-edge hardware, network, and storage technologies in AI infrastructure.
- • Collaborate with world-class engineering and operations teams at a leading AI research company.
- • Impact OpenAI’s ability to rapidly scale training and inference capacity for next-generation models.
- • Work in a fast-paced, innovative environment with aggressive timelines and evolving priorities.
- • Based in San Francisco with travel as needed to support global infrastructure footprint.
Skills & Technologies
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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