[Hiring] Industrial Compute @OpenAI

Role Description

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
• 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
• 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.

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.

Company Description

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.
• 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.