Technical Program Manager, Lab Infrastructure (Silicon & Systems)
OpenAI
San Francisco, CA · $257k–$352k a year · Posted October 27, 2026
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About the job
About the Team
We believe that increasing compute is a huge lever to AI progress.
The 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:
- Optimizing the processing hardware for AI models
- Developing and optimizing the end-to-end software stack
- Designing hardware systems to keep up with the needs of training and inference
- Enabling the scale-up and scale-out interconnect fabrics create the world’s most power supercomputers
We 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.
About the Role
As 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.
This 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.
To 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.
In this role, you will:
- Manage the end-to-end Lab strategy ensuring we have capacity and capabilities in place to successfully deliver the product roadmaps.
- Work cross-functionally and with external general contractors to develop and deliver new Lab facilities on schedule.
- Leveraging your Lab and datacenter construction technical knowledge to influence Lab design, including making trade-offs with internal and external partners.
- Manage 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
- Coordinate and lead internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have experience leading high-power Lab or Datacenter design programs as a Technical Program Manager or Engineer from site selection to completion.
- Data center infrastructure and product knowledge (e.g. server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage), including product development (NPI) processes.
- Knowledge of Lab infrastructure equipment requirements to support product development.
- Experience taking products from concept to volume in a data center environment, ensuring the systems scale with high quality.
- Are eager to help design some of the world’s largest supercomputing systems, working at the edge of complex hardware challenges.
- Enjoy working with and enabling world-class AI Researchers and Engineers.
- Are passionate about the technical program function and enjoy independently owning and delivering on your teams’ goals and cutting-edge problems in AI compute.
About OpenAI
OpenAI 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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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