# Technical Program Manager, Compute Infrastructure

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $257K – $335K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We're seeking a Technical Program Manager for Compute Infrastructure to join our engineer-first TPM team. As a Technical Program Manager, you will own the end-to-end delivery of large-scale GPU clusters, partnering with engineers to bring clusters online across external providers and partners. You'll run a broad, parallel portfolio spanning hardware, networking, power, and cooling,driving execution, risk management, and crisp alignment from working teams through leadership to deliver production-ready capacity at scale.

In this role, you will:

- Lead end-to-end delivery of both New Compute SKUs and large-scale GPU clusters across an external partner ecosystem while supporting capacity planning for training and inference.

- Ability to contextually drive multi-threaded bring-up programs spanning hardware, networking, power, and cooling,owning plans, dependencies, and critical paths.

- Interface with chip providers to derisk long-term onboarding to new hardware platforms by working across kernels, comms, hardware, and scheduling engineering teams.

- Build and operationalize program mechanisms (roadmaps, milestones, risk registers, runbooks) that make delivery predictable at massive scale.

- Partner with engineering to improve cluster turn-up reliability, repeatability, and automation, reducing time-to-serve for new capacity.

- Support network operations and end-to-end physical and logical bring-up of OpenAI network Points-of-Presence (PoPs), including on-site deployment, rack cabling, and close collaboration with engineering teams.

- Coordinate cross-functional readiness (security, finance, operations, product/research stakeholders) to ship production-ready compute.

- Manage integration and handoffs across teams and partners,ensuring consistent execution, clear communication, and fast issue resolution.

- Identify bottlenecks and systemic gaps, then drive durable fixes across tooling, process, and partner interfaces.

- Provide crisp executive visibility on progress, tradeoffs, and risks across a large portfolio of concurrent programs.

You might thrive in this role if you:

- Possess a degree in a hard science, or have a demonstrated track record of engineering expertise.

- Have 5+ years of experience in program management for major projects including capital projects or hyperscaler infrastructure deployment.

- Demonstrate the ability to serve as the go-to person solely responsible for driving and delivering complex projects.

- Are comfortable managing cross-functional and cross-company teams; experience driving information and decision hygiene.

- Have an extensive track record of successfully delivering high-profile, technical projects against tight deadlines.

- Are technically adept and have effectively partnered with engineering or fundamental research teams of the highest caliber.

- Have experience interfacing with and leading external vendors including engineering firms, equipment suppliers, and/or construction firms.

- Have expertise in designing and implementing simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems.

- Have experience managing complicated dependencies such as logistics and/or supply chains.

- Are relentlessly resourceful and thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

- Are interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AGI.

## Skills

### Required
- Program Management
- Compute Infrastructure
- GPU Clusters
- Hardware
- Networking
- Power
- Cooling
- Risk Management
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Engineering
- External Vendors
- Supply Chain Management

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