Base Salary
$125k - $228k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build systems of record for Industrial Compute planning and operations.
- Develop backend services, APIs, workflows, and data platforms for capacity forecasting, allocation, deployment readiness, and operational planning.
- Connect infrastructure delivery, fleet health, capacity utilization, product demand, and financial planning into a shared operational view.
- Build scenario-modeling systems that help leaders evaluate capacity, utilization, cost, reliability, launch timing, and business tradeoffs.
- Create workflow automation and decision-support tools that improve planning accuracy and reduce operational overhead.
- Partner with Capacity Planning, Fleet Operations, Product, Finance, Infrastructure Engineering, Supply Chain, and Strategic Sourcing teams to translate workflows into software systems.
- Drive architecture decisions across planning platforms, operational tooling, and internal infrastructure systems.
- Improve data quality, observability, and operational visibility across Industrial Compute programs.
- Build extensible software foundations that scale with OpenAI’s infrastructure footprint.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- Strong programming experience in Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, or similar languages.
- Experience building distributed systems, backend services, internal platforms, workflow systems, or operational tooling.
- Experience designing APIs, data pipelines, and integrations across multiple systems.
- Strong system design and software architecture skills.
- Experience working with large operational datasets and business-critical workflows.
- Ability to translate ambiguous operational challenges into scalable technical solutions in highly cross-functional environments.
- Strong ownership and ability to independently drive complex projects.
- Preferred experience with planning systems, forecasting platforms, optimization engines, decision-support tools, SQL, data warehouses, orchestration frameworks, analytics platforms, and distributed data systems.
- Preferred familiarity with infrastructure, cloud platforms, data centers, hardware deployment programs, capacity planning, supply chain systems, financial modeling, infrastructure operations, AI infrastructure, hyperscale compute, or large-scale distributed systems.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with 3 days per week in the San Francisco office.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. 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.