Technical Program Manager, AI Accelerator Software

About the Team

OpenAIs Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips systems tools and methodologies the team helps deliver faster more efficient and production-ready hardware for OpenAIs supercomputing platform.

About the Role

As an AI Accelerator Systems Software Technical Program manager at OpenAI you will help bring our chips/system hardware roadmap to life navigating an array of technical and partnership challenges. Were looking for people excited to push the frontiers of computing by navigating technical explorations and are passionate about building.

This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role you will:

• Manage the end-to-end software development from design to implementation for our AI acceleration systems working across technical cross-functional and external stakeholders

• Lead planning and scheduling of AI system software designs with our strategic partners and vendors

• Coordinate and lead internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience as a software technical program manager for data center system products (server GPU TPU networking storage and so on) taking products from concept to volume in a data center environment ensuring the systems scale with high quality

• Know end-to-end software development program management techniques from concept design production deployment into the data center

• Want to help design some of the worlds largest supercomputing systems working at the edge of complex hardware challenges

• Enjoy working with and enabling world-class AI Researchers and Engineers

• Are passionate about the technical program function and enjoy independently owning and delivering on your teams goals and cutting-edge problems in AI compute

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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.

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