Technical Program Manager, Hardware Chips Development

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking a Hardware Chips Programs Manager to drive our ML acceleration hardware roadmap. You will coordinate across cross‑functional teams and external partners to plan, schedule and execute chip hardware designs for scalable AI compute.

This role operates on a hybrid schedule with relocation assistance for new teammates, reflecting our commitment to building world‑class systems. You will own end‑to‑end program management from concept through production and deployment.

Qualifications

• Experience as technical program manager for data center hardware products (server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage, etc).
• End-to-end system program management from concept, design, production, deployment into the data center.
• Some experience with System SW programs through NPI.
• Desire to design world’s largest supercomputing systems and work at the edge of hardware challenges.
• Enjoy collaborating with AI researchers and engineers to deliver cutting-edge compute.

Responsibilities

• Manage the design and implementation planning of our ML acceleration hardware, working across technical, cross‑functional and external stakeholders
• Lead planning and scheduling of chip hardware designs with our strategic partners and vendors
• Coordinate and marshal internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.

Skills

Hardware PM

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor management

End-to-end PM

System SW exposure

Job description

About the Team

We believe that increasing compute is a huge lever to AI progress.

The Hardware team owns the design and/or sourcing of the compute, storage and interconnect hardware needed to build OpenAI’s supercomputers at the scale needed to deliver AGI that is beneficial to humanity. This includes:

• Optimizing the processing hardware for AI models
• Designing memory systems to keep up with the needs of training and inference
• Enabling the scale‑up and scale‑out interconnect fabrics create the world’s most powerful supercomputers

We work at the very cutting edge of speed and scale. You won’t encounter another organization with as much compute per employee. We are a small team that moves quickly, with access to huge resources, working with a direct impact on the success of OpenAI and, by extension, the field of AI as a whole.

About the Role

As a Hardware Chips Programs Manager at OpenAI, you will help bring our chips 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.

To comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations.

In this role, you will:

• Manage the design and implementation planning of our ML acceleration hardware, working across technical, cross‑functional and external stakeholders
• Lead planning and scheduling of chip hardware designs with our strategic partners and vendors
• Coordinate and marshal internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience as a technical program manager for data center hardware products (server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage and so on)
• Know the whole end‑to‑end system program management from concept, design, production, deployment into the data center
• Have some experience with System SW programs through NPI
• 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‑class AI Researchers and Engineers
• Are passionate about the technical program function, and enjoy independently owning and delivering on your teams’ goals and cutting‑edge problems in AI compute

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.