Global Compute Infra Program Manager: CPU/Storage/PoP-WAN

OpenAI; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 226,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a highly technical Program Manager to lead cross‑functional infrastructure programs across CPU, storage, PoP, and WAN deployments. You will own schedules, coordinate hardware readiness, and drive initiatives from rack‑level details to executive capacity planning discussions.

The role requires deep technical fluency in hardware, networks, and storage, with strong communication skills to report milestones and risks to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical program management in infrastructure deployment, data centers, or large-scale networks.
• Experience delivering cross-functional programs across engineering, operations, supply chain, and external vendors.
• Strong understanding of deployment lifecycles from planning and procurement through production handoff.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution of CPU/GPU cluster activation programs across OpenAI's global infrastructure footprint.
• Drive readiness to convert contracted compute capacity into schedulable production clusters.
• Own deployment programs for new PoPs, backbone nodes, WAN expansion, and interconnection initiatives.
• Build integrated schedules spanning procurement, logistics, installation, storage readiness, network turn‑up, testing, and production handoff.
• Coordinate BOM readiness, server delivery, racks, optics, cabling, storage hardware, and vendor milestones.
• Partner with engineering teams to align compute, storage, and networking dependencies before cluster activation.
• Manage deployment of storage systems supporting training and inference workloads, including readiness, validation, performance checks, and scaling plans.
• Coordinate backbone capacity expansion, cross‑connects, inter‑region pathing, and cloud interconnect readiness with Azure and third‑party providers.
• Lead physical deployment execution including rack‑and‑stack, hardware bring‑up, L1 validation, and site acceptance criteria.
• Build repeatable deployment playbooks, dashboards, governance cadences, and operating mechanisms for scale.
• Identify risks early across supply chain, site readiness, technical constraints, and vendor execution, then drive mitigation plans.
• Communicate milestones, escalations, and capacity forecasts to senior leadership.

Skills

Program management

Infrastructure deployment

Network deployment

Cross-functional programs

Executive communication

Project scheduling

Vendor management

Problem-solving

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a highly technical Program Manager to lead cross‑functional infrastructure programs across CPU, storage, PoP, and WAN deployments. You will own schedules, coordinate hardware readiness, and drive initiatives from rack‑level details to executive capacity planning discussions.

The role requires deep technical fluency in hardware, networks, and storage, with strong communication skills to report milestones and risks to senior leadership.