AI Infrastructure Capacity Planner — Technical PM

Openai; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Technical Program Manager to lead capacity planning for its large-scale AI infrastructure in San Francisco. You will translate uncertain workload demand into concrete infrastructure requirements, allocation decisions, supply commitments, and long-range capacity strategies.

This role sits at the intersection of research, engineering, finance, sourcing, deployment, and operations, requiring technical fluency, strong analytical judgment, and the ability to

Qualifications

• Experience in capacity planning for large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, AI or ML workloads, or hyperscale infrastructure.
• Ability to translate ambiguous demand into structured assumptions, scenarios, technical resource requirements, and executable plans.
• Strong analytical skills and experience developing planning models, dashboards, or data-driven decision systems.

Responsibilities

• Own capacity-planning processes across near-term workload allocation, quarterly execution, and longer-range horizons.
• Translate workload demand into compute, accelerator, cluster, networking, storage, and site requirements.
• Develop scenarios with assumptions, confidence levels, constraints, sensitivities and decision points.
• Reconcile demand with contracted, delivered, installed, activated, and usable capacity.
• Partner with research, engineering, sourcing, finance, deployment, and operations teams on supply commitments and timelines.
• Support allocation decisions when infrastructure is constrained or delivery plans change.
• Track lead times, dependencies, utilization, headroom, and capacity risk.
• Build dashboards and source-of-truth systems for credible capacity reporting.
• Drive mitigation plans for site delays, shortages, and other capacity risks.
• Continuously improve planning models, governance and data quality as infra scales.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Infrastructure capacity planning

Cloud infrastructure

Data-driven decision making

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

SQL

Python

BI platforms

Tools

SQL

Python

BI platforms

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Technical Program Manager to lead capacity planning for its large-scale AI infrastructure in San Francisco. You will translate uncertain workload demand into concrete infrastructure requirements, allocation decisions, supply commitments, and long-range capacity strategies.

This role sits at the intersection of research, engineering, finance, sourcing, deployment, and operations, requiring technical fluency, strong analytical judgment, and the ability to