# Facilities Operations Lead - Stargate

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $159K – $240K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are seeking a Facilities Operations Lead to support the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of our next-generation AI data centers. This role bridges the interface between data center construction and hardware landing, ensuring seamless integration of mission-critical infrastructure with hardware deployment timelines.

You will define and execute commissioning plans, support infrastructure bring-up, and take ownership of operations and maintenance for cutting-edge, large-scale, AI data centers.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define and execute sequences of operations, commissioning steps, and bring-up processes for mission-critical data center facilities.

- Interface with the design and hardware teams to define deployment procedures tailored 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 the 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.

Qualifications:

- Have 10+ years of experience in large-scale data center facility operations, commissioning, or critical infrastructure engineering.

- Are deeply familiar with liquid-cooled IT systems, including CDU and in-rack/in-row manifold design, bring-up, and servicing.

- Enjoy defining and improving infrastructure processes at the intersection of construction, hardware, and operations.

- Are comfortable owning infrastructure from deployment to long-term maintenance and failure recovery.

- Have experience responding to field issues and managing reliability through well-defined operational processes.

## Skills

### Required
- large-scale data center facility operations
- commissioning
- critical infrastructure engineering
- liquid-cooled IT systems
- CDU and in-rack/in-row manifold design
- bring-up and servicing

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