OpenAI
Compute Infrastructure Deployment Lead
OpenAI, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
About The Team
The Industrial Compute team builds and operates the infrastructure behind OpenAI’s research and products. We design for scale, performance, and adaptability—bridging physical and logical layers so frontier workloads run efficiently across a global footprint.
About The Role You have deep technical experience (infrastructure / systems engineering, TPM, or product) and move comfortably between system detail and program execution. Your charter will be to deliver step‑function improvements in cost, capability, capacity, reliability, and time‑to‑ready across OpenAI’s infrastructure and compute platform.
In This Role, You Will
Ship cross‑stack, highly technical infrastructure programs end‑to‑end: frame the problem, define requirements, run fast validations, and deliver to production with clear success metrics.
Own outcomes end‑to‑end, and move fast to validate approaches while balancing total cost, performance, and operability.
Maintain precise technical intuition while shipping pragmatic solutions to complex, ambiguous infrastructure problems.
Manage external vendors and partners and make sound calls on cost, performance, and operability to deliver usable FLOPs faster.
Operate both in the weeds at a system level to drive decisions: own the plan of record, force clear trade‑offs, and move decisively to unblock execution.
You May Be a Good Fit If You
Have led ambiguous, cross‑functional infrastructure work to tangible outcomes without waiting for perfect information.
Default to action, can get things done, and enjoy switching between strategy and hands‑on work to fully own projects end‑end.
Sweat the details and are outcomes‑driven, owning technical nuances while also zooming out for the full picture.
Have a humble attitude and a desire to pick up whatever knowledge you’re missing to successfully deliver infrastructure systems.
Operate with high horsepower, have strong problem‑solving skills, are adept at frequent context switching, effectively manage working on multiple projects at once with ownership, and ruthlessly prioritize.
About OpenAI 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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Aff… (rest of EEO statements kept as original).
Compensation Range: $310K
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About The Role You have deep technical experience (infrastructure / systems engineering, TPM, or product) and move comfortably between system detail and program execution. Your charter will be to deliver step‑function improvements in cost, capability, capacity, reliability, and time‑to‑ready across OpenAI’s infrastructure and compute platform.
In This Role, You Will
Ship cross‑stack, highly technical infrastructure programs end‑to‑end: frame the problem, define requirements, run fast validations, and deliver to production with clear success metrics.
Own outcomes end‑to‑end, and move fast to validate approaches while balancing total cost, performance, and operability.
Maintain precise technical intuition while shipping pragmatic solutions to complex, ambiguous infrastructure problems.
Manage external vendors and partners and make sound calls on cost, performance, and operability to deliver usable FLOPs faster.
Operate both in the weeds at a system level to drive decisions: own the plan of record, force clear trade‑offs, and move decisively to unblock execution.
You May Be a Good Fit If You
Have led ambiguous, cross‑functional infrastructure work to tangible outcomes without waiting for perfect information.
Default to action, can get things done, and enjoy switching between strategy and hands‑on work to fully own projects end‑end.
Sweat the details and are outcomes‑driven, owning technical nuances while also zooming out for the full picture.
Have a humble attitude and a desire to pick up whatever knowledge you’re missing to successfully deliver infrastructure systems.
Operate with high horsepower, have strong problem‑solving skills, are adept at frequent context switching, effectively manage working on multiple projects at once with ownership, and ruthlessly prioritize.
About OpenAI 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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Aff… (rest of EEO statements kept as original).
Compensation Range: $310K
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