OpenAI
Data Center Compute Infrastructure
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 2 months ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 2 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$230,000–$490,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Seattle, US - Remote, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Seattle, US - Remote, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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About the role
About the Team
OpenAI’s 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. We’re 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 OpenAI’s 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.
You’ll 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 OpenAI’s 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 OpenAI’s 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.
Requirements
- ·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.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at OpenAI, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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