Data Center Compute Infrastructure

About the Team

OpenAIs Compute organization turns ambitious AI research into real-world capability by delivering the compute infrastructure behind our most advanced models. The team works across software hardware facilities operations and engineering disciplines to make enormous amounts of compute available reliable and efficient.

As the demand for frontier AI grows so does the complexity of the systems required to support it. Scaling this infrastructure means solving problems that cut across distributed systems ML infrastructure GPU fleets power cooling networking manufacturing supply chain and data center delivery.

Our work is focused on expanding the compute foundation that enables OpenAI to train more capable models including systems like GPT-5.6 and make frontier AI available to more people products and workflows. Were looking for exceptional people across many disciplines to help build the next generation of AI infrastructure at a scale few organizations have attempted.

About the Role

We are hiring across a broad range of roles to help design build scale and operate OpenAIs compute infrastructure. Depending on your background you may work on large-scale distributed systems ML infrastructure hardware systems manufacturing supply chain data center development or the physical engineering systems required to bring massive compute capacity online.

Youll work with teams across research engineering hardware operations and infrastructure to solve high-impact problems at extraordinary scale. This may include improving system reliability accelerating deployment timelines increasing operational efficiency designing new infrastructure or helping bring new compute platforms and facilities from concept to production.

This is an opportunity to work on one of the most important infrastructure challenges in AI: building the compute foundation required to train and serve increasingly capable frontier models.

Key Responsibilities:

• Help build scale and operate OpenAIs global compute infrastructure.

• Solve complex problems across software hardware manufacturing supply chain and data center systems.

• Improve the reliability performance efficiency and scalability of critical infrastructure.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to bring new compute capacity online quickly and reliably.

• Identify bottlenecks across technical operational and physical systems and develop practical solutions.

• Build tools processes systems or infrastructure that improve execution at scale.

• Contribute to the long-term architecture and operational maturity of OpenAIs compute footprint.

Qualifications:

• Have experience building scaling or operating complex technical systems.

• Enjoy working on ambiguous high-impact problems where the path forward is not always defined.

• Are comfortable collaborating across disciplines including software hardware operations and physical infrastructure.

• Have strong technical judgment and a bias toward execution.

• Care deeply about reliability speed safety and operational excellence.

• Are excited by the challenge of building infrastructure at unprecedented scale.

• Want your work to directly support the development and deployment of frontier AI.

Preferred Skills:

• Have experience with AI infrastructure high-performance computing distributed systems GPU clusters or cloud-scale platforms.

• Have worked on hardware systems manufacturing supply chain data center development or large capital infrastructure projects.

• Have domain expertise in civil controls mechanical hardware electrical thermal power networking or facilities engineering.

• Have helped bring new technical platforms data centers factories or large-scale systems from concept to production.

• Have experience operating in fast-moving environments where technical depth and execution speed both matter.

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.

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