Technical Program Manager, AI Accelerator Software

OpenAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI’s Hardware organization is building AI-native silicon and system-level solutions to power frontier models, co-designing chips, systems, and software for faster, more efficient AI workloads.

The AI Accelerator Systems Software Technical Program Manager role in San Francisco combines end-to-end software program management with cross-functional collaboration with partners and vendors, supported by a hybrid work model and relocation assistance.

Qualifications

• Experience as a software technical program manager for data center system products.
• End-to-end software development program management techniques from concept to deployment in data centers.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and external vendors.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end software development from design to implementation for AI acceleration systems, coordinating across technical, cross-functional and external stakeholders.
• Lead planning and scheduling of AI system software designs with strategic partners and vendors.
• Coordinate internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.

Skills

Software TPM

Data center hardware

Vendor coordination

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform.

About the Role

As an AI Accelerator Systems Software Technical Program manager at OpenAI, you will help bring our chips/system hardware roadmap to life, navigating an array of technical and partnership challenges. We’re looking for people excited to push the frontiers of computing by navigating technical explorations and are passionate about building. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Manage the end-to-end software development from design to implementation for our AI acceleration systems, working across technical, cross-functional and external stakeholders
• Lead planning and scheduling of AI system software designs with our strategic partners and vendors
• Coordinate and lead internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience as a software technical program manager for data center system products (server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage and so on) taking products from concept to volume in a data center environment ensuring the systems scale with high quality
• Know end-to-end software development program management techniques from concept, design, production, deployment into the data center
• Want to help design some of the world’s largest supercomputing systems, working at the edge of complex hardware challenges
• Enjoy working with and enabling world-clas