Technical Program Manager, Lab Infrastructure (Silicon & Systems)

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA

3d•$257,000 - $352,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Technical Program Manager, Lab Infrastructure (Silicon & Systems) will bring lab infrastructure development knowledge and technical program management experience to build industry-leading lab environments that support product development and hardware roadmaps. The role involves addressing technical and partnership challenges, developing existing lab locations, and delivering new sites on schedule. It is based in San Francisco, California, with a hybrid schedule of three days in the office per week. Relocation assistance is offered to new employees. Candidates may need to meet legal-status requirements under U.S. export control laws and regulations. The Hardware Systems team designs, develops, and sources compute, storage, and interconnect hardware for OpenAI supercomputers. Its work includes optimizing AI processing hardware and software stacks, designing systems for training and inference, and enabling scale-up and scale-out interconnect fabrics. OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company working to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. It is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Requirements

Experience leading high-power lab or data-center design programs as a Technical Program Manager or Engineer, from site selection through completion.
Knowledge of data-center infrastructure and products, such as servers, GPUs, TPUs, networking, and storage, including product development (NPI) processes.
Knowledge of lab infrastructure equipment requirements for product development.
Experience taking products from concept to volume in a data-center environment while ensuring systems scale with high quality.
Passion for the technical program function and ability to independently own and deliver team goals and complex AI-compute problems.

Nice To Haves

Interest in helping design some of the world’s largest supercomputing systems and working on complex hardware challenges.
Enjoyment of working with and enabling AI researchers and engineers.

Responsibilities

Manage end-to-end lab strategy to ensure capacity and capabilities support product roadmaps.
Work cross-functionally and with external general contractors to develop and deliver new lab facilities on schedule.
Use lab and data-center construction expertise to influence lab design and make trade-offs with internal and external partners.
Manage ongoing lab availability so facilities and capabilities support product bring-up, debugging, and ongoing development work.
Coordinate and lead internal resources and communications to enable efficient interaction with partners and vendors.