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Data Center Design Manager

OpenAI· Scaling
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Remote$225k - $285kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Data Center Design Manager at OpenAI to coordinate design and delivery of infrastructure for large-scale AI deployments, leading multidisciplinary design efforts and ensuring alignment from planning through construction and turnover.

Responsibilities

  • Manage design scope, deliverables, milestones, and dependencies from concept development through detailed design and construction support.
  • Coordinate civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and physical network interfaces across data center buildings and campuses.
  • Translate owner and hardware requirements into coordinated design criteria, working with discipline leads to resolve gaps and competing requirements.
  • Lead multidisciplinary design reviews; track comments, decisions, technical risks, and actions through resolution before design release.
  • Evaluate design changes with engineering and delivery partners, making impacts on reliability, safety, cost, schedule, and maintainability clear.
  • Coordinate external architects, engineering consultants, developers, and equipment suppliers to maintain design quality and meet agreed deliverables.
  • Partner with construction and commissioning teams on constructability, sequencing, RFIs, submittals, field issues, and design changes.
  • Maintain design documentation and handoff requirements, and incorporate field and operational lessons into reusable standards and reference designs.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience managing multidisciplinary design for data centers, mission-critical facilities, or comparable complex infrastructure.
  • Technical understanding of data center infrastructure and the interfaces among power, cooling, controls, structures, and physical networks.
  • Experience taking coordinated design packages from early planning through detailed design and construction support.
  • Experience coordinating external design consultants, engineering specialists, and construction partners.
  • Ability to read technical drawings and specifications, identify interface gaps, and work with discipline experts to resolve them.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, disciplined issue tracking, and sound judgment when balancing technical requirements with delivery constraints.

Skills

Required:Multidisciplinary design coordinationDesign review leadershipReading and interpreting technical drawings

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
  • Daily meals in 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 Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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