Civil & Structural Architect, Power Gen for AI Data Hubs

OpenAI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. seeks a Civil & Structural Architect to lead CSA for on-site power-generation systems serving large AI data center campuses.

You will develop and review site, foundation, structural, enclosure, and building solutions, coordinating equipment and vendor requirements into safe, constructible designs through installation and startup. Travel: 50% to multiple campuses; you will support procurement, field reviews, commissioning, and turnover, creating repeatable CSA reference designs for

Qualifications

• 8+ years in civil, structural, or architectural engineering with power-generation facilities delivery or owner-side review.
• Experience coordinating OEM foundation and support requirements, geotechnical and dynamic analyses.
• Ability to interpret equipment and vendor requirements into CSA designs.
• Experience with gas turbines, substations, or large generator installations is preferred.
• Knowledge of building, structural, fire, accessibility, and energy codes and permitting.
• Ability to manage design interfaces and field changes through construction.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review CSA basis-of-design documents, criteria, specifications, calculations, drawings, and vendor requirements.
• Lead site layout, grading, drainage, roads, underground interfaces, foundations, structural steel, buildings, and enclosure design.
• Translate generator, turbine, engine, transformer, switchgear, fuel, exhaust, cooling, and controls requirements into coordinated CSA designs.
• Evaluate static, dynamic, vibration, wind, seismic, thermal, fire, acoustic, and maintenance-access requirements.
• Coordinate geotechnical investigations, surveys, permitting packages, constructability reviews, and field-design changes.
• Review consultant, EPC, OEM, and contractor deliverables and resolve design gaps at interfaces.
• Define CSA readiness checks before installation and startup.
• Support procurement, factory and field reviews, construction quality, commissioning, and turnover.
• Create repeatable CSA reference designs and standards for multiple campuses.

Skills

CSA discipline coordination

Site layout planning

Geotechnical analysis

Foundation design review

Structural steel & buildings

Vibration, wind, seismic analysis

Multidisciplinary interface management

Vendor requirements translation

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil/structural/architectural eng or architecture

Tools

BIM coordination

Geotechnical risk assessment

Regulatory permitting knowledge

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. seeks a Civil & Structural Architect to lead CSA for on-site power-generation systems serving large AI data center campuses.

You will develop and review site, foundation, structural, enclosure, and building solutions, coordinating equipment and vendor requirements into safe, constructible designs through installation and startup. Travel: 50% to multiple campuses; you will support procurement, field reviews, commissioning, and turnover, creating repeatable CSA reference designs for