Hardware Systems Planning Lead (1P)

OpenAI is seeking a 1P Hardware Systems Planning Lead to own the integrated demand, supply, and deployment plan for our 1P AI infrastructure systems.

This role will connect infrastructure demand and site power availability to system configurations, XPU requirements, and hardware supply commitments,creating a single, actionable view of whether our deployment plan can be met.

You will establish the planning mechanisms that allow teams to see what changed, understand the impact, and act quickly when demand, supply, configuration, site readiness, or power timing moves.

Responsibilities:

• Own the integrated planning process for 1P hardware systems, connecting system demand, deployment timing, site and configuration requirements, power availability, XPU needs, and supply commitments.
• Maintain a clear, decision-ready supply plan that shows changes from the prior plan; weekly pull-ins and push-outs; site, deployment, and system-configuration impacts; power availability assumptions and timing; system demand and corresponding XPU requirements; current supplier and manufacturing commitments; gaps between forecast, requirements, and committed supply; and recovery actions with accountable owners and target closure dates.
• Validate that the end-to-end supply plan is executable, including the timing and dependencies across components, XPU availability, system integration, factory capacity, site readiness, and deployment.
• Lead a weekly deployment and supply review focused on material changes, emerging risks, required decisions, and recovery-plan execution.
• Publish and maintain a weekly delta report that clearly explains what changed, why it changed, and the downstream impact to deployments, sites, configurations, power, and supply.
• Track forecast-versus-commit gaps at a weekly level, identify the underlying constraints, and drive recovery plans with named owners and dates.
• Coordinate the biweekly end-to-end supply picture update for leadership and key stakeholders, including the latest system forecast; how the forecast aligns with site power availability and timing; current supply commitments; weekly gaps to commit; and the plan and timing to close each gap.
• Partner with Hardware Engineering and Infrastructure teams to translate roadmap, configuration, and deployment changes into updated system and XPU requirements.
• Work with Supply Chain, manufacturing partners, and suppliers to pressure-test commitments, understand constraints, and establish credible recovery paths.
• Anticipate supply and deployment risks, develop scenarios and tradeoffs, and provide crisp recommendations to senior leaders.
• Build scalable planning models, reporting standards, and operating mechanisms that improve forecast accuracy, change control, traceability, and executive decision-making as 1P infrastructure scales.

Requirements:

• Significant experience in hardware systems planning, supply planning, program management, operations, or a related role supporting complex, high-volume technology products or infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of the dependencies among hardware demand, component supply, manufacturing capacity, system configurations, site readiness, power availability, and deployment schedules.
• Experience building and managing integrated demand-and-supply plans at weekly granularity, including forecast changes, supply commits, gaps, scenarios, and recovery actions.
• Demonstrated ability to pressure-test whether a plan is executable rather than simply consolidating inputs from different teams.
• Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to translate complex datasets and technical dependencies into clear insights, decisions, and actions.
• Strong program leadership, including experience establishing operating cadences, driving cross-functional accountability, and closing issues across organizations.
• Demonstrated experience communicating effectively across cross-functional teams and with senior leadership, with the judgment to tailor the level of detail to the audience,distilling complex issues into concise, decision-ready updates while going deep on assumptions, dependencies, risks, and recovery plans when needed.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-ambiguity environment where requirements, priorities, and constraints evolve quickly.
• High ownership, sound judgment, and a bias toward surfacing risks early and driving them through resolution.
• Experience with AI infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, or accelerator systems.
• Experience with semiconductors, server or rack manufacturing, or complex hardware supply chains.

What success looks like:

• A single, trusted view of 1P hardware system demand, supply commitments, deployment timing, and associated gaps.
• Clear weekly visibility into changes, pull-ins, push-outs, and their impact on sites, configurations, power, systems, and XPUs.
• Early identification of risks to the deployment plan, with quantified impact and actionable recovery paths.
• Every material gap has a clear recovery plan, accountable owner, target date, and escalation path.
• Forecast, supply, manufacturing, site-readiness, and power assumptions remain aligned across teams.
• Leadership receives a concise, consistent, and decision-oriented biweekly view of the end-to-end supply picture.
• Planning processes and tools scale with the pace, volume, and complexity of OpenAI’s 1P infrastructure roadmap.

Compensation:

• $257K – $344K • Offers Equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.