White Space Manager
About The Position
OpenAI’s Data Center Engineering team develops repeatable technical standards and carries them through design, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness. Working with capital and delivery partners and teams across facilities, power generation, compute infrastructure, construction, procurement, and operations, the team delivers reliable capacity at scale and speed. The White Space Manager owns planning, coordination, and readiness of data center white-space environments, connecting facility delivery with compute deployment. The role coordinates rack layouts, electrical distribution, liquid and air cooling, structured cabling, containment, material flow, installation sequencing, and acceptance. It is accountable for turning completed building infrastructure into safe, usable, operations-ready data halls that can receive and activate high-density AI systems. The role focuses on data hall fit-out, rack deployment, and operational readiness, and involves 50% travel.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience delivering or operating data center white space, critical facilities, compute deployments, or mission-critical fit-outs.
- Strong understanding of racks, power distribution, structured cabling, airflow management, liquid cooling, controls interfaces, and deployment sequencing.
- Demonstrated ownership of installation readiness, field coordination, quality, safety, and handoff across several technical disciplines.
- Experience interpreting construction documents, rack layouts, one-lines, mechanical diagrams, schedules, and commissioning records.
- Ability to manage competing dependencies and make sound decisions in an active construction or production environment.
- Strong communication with engineers, contractors, vendors, deployment teams, and operations leaders.
- Willingness to travel regularly and spend sustained time at active project sites.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with high-density GPU or AI infrastructure and direct-to-chip liquid cooling.
- Experience with DCIM, asset-management, commissioning, or deployment-readiness systems.
- Background in data center construction, commissioning, hardware deployment, or facilities operations.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, operations, or a related technical field.
Responsibilities
- Own white-space planning and readiness from design development through rack installation, testing, activation, and handoff to operations.
- Coordinate rack elevations, floor layouts, service clearances, containment, busway or RPP distribution, cabling pathways, and cooling connections.
- Translate compute deployment forecasts into space, power, cooling, network, labor, tooling, and material requirements.
- Develop installation sequences, readiness gates, turnover criteria, punch-list processes, and escalation paths across multiple workstreams.
- Partner with design, construction, commissioning, networking, hardware operations, safety, logistics, and vendors to resolve cross-system constraints.
- Verify field conditions against approved designs and maintain accurate as-built, capacity, asset, and readiness records.
- Identify risks to safe installation, energization, cooling availability, network readiness, or schedule and drive mitigations to closure.
- Create repeatable white-space standards, checklists, metrics, and operating mechanisms that scale across campuses.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
