OpenAI
Compute Infrastructure, Critical Facilities Manager
$199K–$302K
San Francisco +2 · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted May 28, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Seattle
US - Remote - Experience
- 8+ years.
About the job
Leads operational readiness and day-to-day operation of AI data center campuses, ensuring critical facilities are reliably transitioned into and maintained in production.
What you'll do
- Lead facility operations and readiness, partnering with commissioning teams to transition campuses from construction into steady-state operations.
- Develop operating procedures, maintenance programs, incident response, and reliability improvements; coordinate recovery and root cause analysis.
- Manage vendors and contractors, coordinate infrastructure work with engineering and deployment teams, and support facilities staff development.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience operating mission-critical facilities, data centers, industrial infrastructure, or large-scale technical operations environments.
- Strong knowledge of electrical distribution systems, generators, UPS systems, cooling systems, and building controls.
- Experience supporting commissioning, operational readiness, or infrastructure turnover programs.
- Experience leading facility operations teams, contractors, and third-party vendors.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting hyperscale, cloud, AI, HPC, or mission-critical data center environments.
- Experience with liquid cooling systems and high-density compute deployments.
Pay
$199K – $302K USD base salary
Tools
electrical distribution systems, generators, UPS systems, cooling systems, building controls
AI focus
Supports commissioning, readiness, and ongoing operation of AI compute campuses and infrastructure for frontier AI workloads.
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