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Data Center Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager (Network and Whitespace)

OpenAI· Scaling
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (Seattle), Hybrid (US - Remote)$226k - $285kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Data Center Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager focused on production and non-production network integration, controls coordination, and data hall/whitespace facility design and deployment within OpenAI's data centers.

Responsibilities

  • Translate assigned infrastructure goals into clear workstream charters, scopes, milestones, owners, decision points, success metrics, resourcing assumptions, and execution plans.
  • Build and maintain integrated execution plans for assigned programs covering network, controls, data hall design, whitespace deployment, commissioning preparation, and deployment readiness.
  • Support coordination across network, controls, structural, electrical, mechanical, hardware integration, construction, commissioning, and operations teams.
  • Work with third-party design teams to define design milestones from concept through detailed design, including basis-of-design development, requirements tracking, design reviews, technical comment resolution, change management, and release readiness.
  • Maintain the dependency map, issue log, risk register, action tracker, and decision log for assigned network and data hall workstreams.
  • Coordinate design and review milestones for network rooms, non-production network services, OT / IT interface points, rack deployment assumptions, telemetry interfaces, controls dependencies, and data hall deployment packages.
  • Track building-level network and support-space interfaces such as MPOE, MMR, Network Core, WAN, support rooms, and associated handoff points where they affect assigned programs.
  • Support the network and controls DRIs by organizing reviews, resolving cross-discipline gaps, surfacing decisions, and keeping partner deliverables aligned to schedule.
  • Manage partner and vendor deliverables such as submittals, interface packages, installation assumptions, turn-up plans, readiness evidence, field issue logs, and corrective action tracking.
  • Drive readiness tracking for assigned 1P, 3P, colo, and selected CSP programs, including bring-up sequencing, installation readiness, access dependencies, maintenance windows, and first-use criteria.
  • Prepare clear status updates, dashboards, and executive-ready summaries for the Industrial Compute lead and project stakeholders.
  • Capture lessons learned from deployment and handoff activities and feed them back into playbooks, standards, and interface definitions.

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in engineering program management, technical program management, mission-critical infrastructure delivery, data center deployment, or comparable complex execution environments, typically gained through 10+ years of relevant work or equivalent depth of experience.
  • Proven ability to operate within ambiguous, cross-functional engineering programs with shifting requirements, urgent timelines, and high-stakes operational risk, driving from concept through design, validation, procurement, construction, commissioning, deployment, and operations.
  • Proven experience coordinating cross-functional programs that include network, controls, mechanical, electrical, structural, construction, commissioning, or operations participants.
  • Strong technical fluency in at least several of the following areas: data hall deployment, non-production network, production network interfaces, controls coordination, telemetry, rack deployment, mission-critical support spaces, and infrastructure handoff.
  • Experience building and maintaining integrated schedules, dependency maps, risk registers, decision logs, readiness trackers, and partner action plans.
  • Experience coordinating external partners, vendors, design firms, delivery teams, or operators in a multi-party infrastructure environment.
  • Ability to understand complex technical tradeoffs, ask strong questions, identify hidden dependencies, and help teams move toward clear decisions without needing to be the sole technical owner.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce crisp status reporting and drive action across matrixed teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Construction Management, Operations, Business, or a related technical or quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Required:Engineering program managementCross-functional coordination

Benefits

  • 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
  • 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
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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