Senior Critical Facilities Lead – AI Data Centers

Slope; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Critical Facilities Lead to oversee the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of next-generation AI data centers. You will bridge data center construction and hardware landing, defining commissioning plans and owning operations and maintenance for mission-critical infrastructure at scale.

You will collaborate with design, construction, and hardware teams to create repeatable processes for new builds and lead hands-on operations to ensure performance and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in large-scale data center facility operations, commissioning, or critical infrastructure engineering.
• Deep familiarity with liquid-cooled IT systems, including CDU and in-rack/in-row manifold design, bring-up, and servicing.
• Experience defining and improving infrastructure processes at technology-construction-hardware-operations intersection.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute sequences of operations, commissioning steps, and bring-up processes for mission-critical data center facilities.
• Interface with design and hardware teams to tailor deployment procedures to each data center and hardware configuration.
• Oversee installation, commissioning, and operational readiness of large-scale data center campuses.
• Manage monitoring, maintenance, and quality control of data center infrastructure, including high-performance liquid cooling systems.
• Develop on-site operations staffing strategy.
• Develop and enforce procedures for planned and unplanned downtime and SLAs for critical facility components.

Skills

Data center ops

Liquid-cooled IT systems

Infrastructure processes

Deployment to maintenance

Field issue response

Tools

CDU design

In-rack manifolds

Monitoring systems

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Critical Facilities Lead to oversee the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of next-generation AI data centers. You will bridge data center construction and hardware landing, defining commissioning plans and owning operations and maintenance for mission-critical infrastructure at scale.

You will collaborate with design, construction, and hardware teams to create repeatable processes for new builds and lead hands-on operations to ensure performance and