Infrastructure Turnover & Deployment Specialist
Infrastructure Turnover & Deployment Specialist
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USD 230000 - 355000
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Job Description
About the Team:
OpenAI in close collaboration with our capital partners is embarking on a journey to build the worlds most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Physical Infrastructure team is central to this mission setting the core infra strategy and implementing this vision. From site selection to the buildout process this team sits at the intersection of commercial technical strategy and operations interacting with teams and executives inside and outside of OpenAI.
About the Role
OpenAI is seeking an experienced infrastructure delivery professional to lead the execution of white space fitouts and serve as the operational handoff lead between construction and production readiness. This role manages deployment execution endtoend from vendor coordination and equipment racking to commissioning readiness and operational turnover across our global data center footprint.
This role is ideal for someone passionate about bridging construction and operations enabling seamless handoffs to site operations and compute/network teams. You will work directly with vendors technical teams and commissioning groups to ensure deployments meet performance availability and documentation standards.
What Youll Do
Lead fullscope white space fitouts including cabinet layout validation server/network gear installation PDU/power whip integration and structured cabling oversight.
Serve as the deployment execution lead translating infrastructure designs into fieldready workstreams and bridging the gap between design commissioning and operations.
Support and coordinate commissioning handoffs ensuring physical infrastructure is fully validated documented and turned over to SiteOps and Compute teams.
Actively participate in Design for Operability (DFO) reviews to influence design assumptions related to cable pathways rack access and maintainability.
Drive network bringup readiness through patch panel setup fiber/copper installation verification and preactivation testing.
Manage external vendors and deployment partners to keep installation timelines QA inspections and material tracking on schedule.
Document deployment progress and capture lessons learned to improve playbooks and guide future rollouts.
Lead site readiness walkthroughs with commissioning and operations teams to verify power cooling labeling and metadata alignment.
Required Qualifications:
7 years managing infrastructure delivery and operational handoff within data center environments (hyperscale AI or cloud preferred).
Proven track record in white space buildouts structured cabling power integration and server/network equipment deployment.
Strong commissioning support experience including rack readiness power/cooling validation and final turnup sequencing.
Experience bridging construction and SiteOps ensuring continuity from build phase through steady state.
Familiarity with asset onboarding workflows BOM validation naming conventions and metadata hygiene for operational systems.
Skilled at coordinating multiple contractors and internal teams in fastpaced highvolume environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
Background in Site Operations (SiteOps RunOps) or network infrastructure deployment roles for hyperscale AI or cloud environments
Experience reading and interpreting rack elevations site deployment diagrams structured cabling layouts and network patching plans
Familiarity with networking hardware (switches routers optics) and server/storage system installation practices
Understanding of fiber testing and certification processes cabling standards and network turnup workflows
Strong verbal and written communication skills to manage crossfunctional coordination and external vendor alignment
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that generalpurpose 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 do not discriminate on the basis of race religion national origin gender sexual orientation age veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.
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At OpenAI we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
