{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"199f84f36f875e6037670a48","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/199f84f36f875e6037670a48","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/199f84f36f875e6037670a48","title":"Technical Program Manager, Lab Infrastructure (Silicon & Systems)","description":"Technical Program Management - San Francisco\n\nAbout the Team\n\nWe believe that increasing compute is a huge lever to AI progress.\n\nThe Hardware Systems team owns the design, development, and sourcing of the compute, storage and interconnect hardware needed to build OpenAI’s supercomputers at the scale needed to deliver AGI that is beneficial to humanity. This includes:\n\nOptimizing the processing hardware for AI models\n\nDeveloping and optimizing the end-to-end software stack\n\nDesigning hardware systems to keep up with the needs of training and inference\n\nEnabling the scale-up and scale-out interconnect fabrics create the world’s most power supercomputers\n\nWe work at the very cutting edge of speed and scale. You won’t encounter another organization with as much compute per employee. We are a small team that moves quickly with access to huge resources. Our work has a direct impact on the success of OpenAI and, by extension, the field of AI as a whole.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nAs the 1P Systems Lab Technical Program Manager, you will bring Lab infrastructure development knowledge and TPM experience to build out industry leading lab environments which are key to developing products and bringing the hardware roadmap to life. You’ll navigate an array of technical and partnership challenges as you work to develop our existing lab locations and deliver new sites on schedule. We’re looking for people excited to push the frontiers of computing and passionate about building.\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.\n\nTo comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\nManage the end-to-end Lab strategy ensuring we have capacity and capabilities in place to successfully deliver the product roadmaps.\n\nWork cross-functionally and with external general contractors to develop and deliver new Lab facilities on schedule.\n\nLeveraging your Lab and datacenter construction technical knowledge to influence Lab design, including making trade-offs with internal and external partners.\n\nManage on-going lab availability to ensure lab facilities and capabilities are in place to support product bring-up, debug activities, and all on-going development work\n\nCoordinate and lead internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\nHave experience leading high-power Lab or Datacenter design programs as a Technical Program Manager or Engineer from site selection to completion.\n\nData center infrastructure and product knowledge (e.g. server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage), including product development (NPI) processes.\n\nKnowledge of Lab infrastructure equipment requirements to support product development.\n\nExperience taking products from concept to volume in a data center environment, ensuring the systems scale with high quality.\n\nAre eager to help design some of the world’s largest supercomputing systems, working at the edge of complex hardware challenges.\n\nEnjoy working with and enabling world-class AI Researchers and Engineers.\n\nAre passionate about the technical program function and enjoy independently owning and delivering on your teams’ goals and cutting-edge problems in AI compute.\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.\n\nCompensation\n\n$257K – $352K + Offers Equity\n\nThe base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.\n\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts\n\nPre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)\n\n401(k) retirement plan with employer match\n\nPaid 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)\n\nPaid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees\n\n13+ 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)\n\nMental health and wellness support\n\nEmployer-paid basic life and disability coverage\n\nAnnual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth\n\nDaily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible\n\nRelocation support for eligible employees\n\nAdditional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.\n\nMore details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.\n\nThis role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.","company":"OpenAI","rawCompany":"openai","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-29T07:38:00.430Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-3021.00","title":"Computer and Information Systems Managers","slug":"computer-and-information-systems-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1221.00","title":"Computer and Information Research Scientists","slug":"computer-and-information-research-scientists"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"334111","title":"Electronic Computer Manufacturing","slug":"electronic-computer-manufacturing"},{"code":"518210","title":"Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services","slug":"computing-infrastructure-providers-data-processing-web-hosting-and-related-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Technical Program Manager, Lab Infrastructure (Silicon & Systems)","description":"Technical Program Management - San Francisco\n\nAbout the Team\n\nWe believe that increasing compute is a huge lever to AI progress.\n\nThe Hardware Systems team owns the design, development, and sourcing of the compute, storage and interconnect hardware needed to build OpenAI’s supercomputers at the scale needed to deliver AGI that is beneficial to humanity. This includes:\n\nOptimizing the processing hardware for AI models\n\nDeveloping and optimizing the end-to-end software stack\n\nDesigning hardware systems to keep up with the needs of training and inference\n\nEnabling the scale-up and scale-out interconnect fabrics create the world’s most power supercomputers\n\nWe work at the very cutting edge of speed and scale. You won’t encounter another organization with as much compute per employee. We are a small team that moves quickly with access to huge resources. Our work has a direct impact on the success of OpenAI and, by extension, the field of AI as a whole.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nAs the 1P Systems Lab Technical Program Manager, you will bring Lab infrastructure development knowledge and TPM experience to build out industry leading lab environments which are key to developing products and bringing the hardware roadmap to life. You’ll navigate an array of technical and partnership challenges as you work to develop our existing lab locations and deliver new sites on schedule. We’re looking for people excited to push the frontiers of computing and passionate about building.\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.\n\nTo comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\nManage the end-to-end Lab strategy ensuring we have capacity and capabilities in place to successfully deliver the product roadmaps.\n\nWork cross-functionally and with external general contractors to develop and deliver new Lab facilities on schedule.\n\nLeveraging your Lab and datacenter construction technical knowledge to influence Lab design, including making trade-offs with internal and external partners.\n\nManage on-going lab availability to ensure lab facilities and capabilities are in place to support product bring-up, debug activities, and all on-going development work\n\nCoordinate and lead internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\nHave experience leading high-power Lab or Datacenter design programs as a Technical Program Manager or Engineer from site selection to completion.\n\nData center infrastructure and product knowledge (e.g. server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage), including product development (NPI) processes.\n\nKnowledge of Lab infrastructure equipment requirements to support product development.\n\nExperience taking products from concept to volume in a data center environment, ensuring the systems scale with high quality.\n\nAre eager to help design some of the world’s largest supercomputing systems, working at the edge of complex hardware challenges.\n\nEnjoy working with and enabling world-class AI Researchers and Engineers.\n\nAre passionate about the technical program function and enjoy independently owning and delivering on your teams’ goals and cutting-edge problems in AI compute.\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.\n\nCompensation\n\n$257K – $352K + Offers Equity\n\nThe base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.\n\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts\n\nPre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)\n\n401(k) retirement plan with employer match\n\nPaid 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)\n\nPaid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees\n\n13+ 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)\n\nMental health and wellness support\n\nEmployer-paid basic life and disability coverage\n\nAnnual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth\n\nDaily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible\n\nRelocation support for eligible employees\n\nAdditional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.\n\nMore details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.\n\nThis role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.","datePosted":"2026-10-29T07:38:00.430Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T07:38:00.430Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"OpenAI","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"199f84f36f875e6037670a48"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/199f84f36f875e6037670a48"}}