OpenAI · 3 months ago
Compute Infrastructure Strategy Lead
San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$393K/yr - $393K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Compute Infrastructure Strategy Lead will be responsible for delivering improvements in cost, capability, capacity, reliability, and time-to-ready across OpenAI’s infrastructure and compute platform, collaborating with various teams to align technical and operational goals.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Own cross-stack programs end-to-end: define the problem, design the approach, prove it quickly, and carry the result into production
Drive rapid clarity on goals, criteria, risks, metrics for complex technical problems without adding heavy process
Work closely with engineering, operations, and (when needed) finance, research, product, and external vendors to align decisions and deliver useful infrastructure at massive scale
Own outcomes end-to-end, and move fast to validate approaches—using bounded pilots when useful—while balancing total cost, performance, and operability
Collaborate with engineering to incubate and execute on the technical decisions that unlock scale
Qualification
Required
Deep technical experience (infrastructure / systems engineering, TPM, or product)
Ability to move comfortably between system detail and program execution
Experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional infrastructure work to tangible outcomes without waiting for perfect information
Clear communication skills to align partners and make sound calls on cost, performance, and operability
Preference for measured proofs and execution over slideware
Enjoyment in switching between strategy and hands-on work to fully own projects end-to-end
Benefits
Relocation assistance to new employees
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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