Low-Carbon Energy & Emerging Tech Lead

Neura Market; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Clean Energy and New Technology Lead to own infrastructure clean energy strategy and deployment for scalable, low-carbon compute growth. You will evaluate emerging energy technologies, define deployment pathways, and work with regulatory, policy, engineering, and site-readiness teams to align sustainability with project needs.

The role is an individual-contributor lead position focusing on reliability, cost, carbon, and operational trade-offs, supporting OpenAI’s long-term

Qualifications

• 15+ years in energy technology, infrastructure sustainability, clean energy procurement, power markets, data center energy strategy, utility programs, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of power systems, low-carbon energy, grid constraints, infrastructure reliability, and the practical requirements of large-scale deployment.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies, structuring pilots, or moving early-stage solutions toward commercial implementation.
• Ability to balance sustainability objectives with reliability, cost, schedule, regulatory, and operational constraints.
• Proven cross-functional leadership across technical, commercial, policy, and executive stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, written communication, and executive-summary skills.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging energy solutions such as clean firm power, advanced storage, grid flexibility, low-carbon backup power, heat reuse, water-related energy efficiency, and other scalable technologies where relevant.
• Identify pilot opportunities and deployment pathways that can move promising energy technologies from concept to commercially and operationally credible execution.
• Translate technical options into clear reliability, cost, schedule, carbon, regulatory, and operational implications for infrastructure decision-making.
• Partner with energy regulatory, policy, procurement, engineering, deployment, finance, legal, and site-readiness teams to align technology and sustainability choices with project needs.
• Track external market, policy, utility, and technology developments
• Build repeatable evaluation frameworks, partner criteria, and execution playbooks for sustainability and emerging energy technology initiatives.

Skills

Energy technology

Cross-functional leadership

Power systems

Data center energy strategy

Executive communication

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Clean Energy and New Technology Lead to own infrastructure clean energy strategy and deployment for scalable, low-carbon compute growth. You will evaluate emerging energy technologies, define deployment pathways, and work with regulatory, policy, engineering, and site-readiness teams to align sustainability with project needs.

The role is an individual-contributor lead position focusing on reliability, cost, carbon, and operational trade-offs, supporting OpenAI’s long-term