OpenAI
Critical Facilities Lead, Compute Infrastructure
$199K–$302K
US - Remote · Remote · Full-time · Posted Mar 27, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in large-scale data center facility operations, commissioning, or critical infrastructure engineering.
About the job
Leads commissioning, deployment, and long-term operations of large-scale AI data centers, coordinating facility infrastructure with hardware deployment.
What you'll do
- Define commissioning, facility bring-up, and hardware-specific deployment procedures.
- Oversee campus installation, commissioning, operational readiness, monitoring, maintenance, and quality control, including liquid cooling systems.
- Develop on-site staffing strategy and procedures for planned and unplanned downtime and critical-component SLAs.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in large-scale data center facility operations, commissioning, or critical infrastructure engineering.
- Deep familiarity with liquid-cooled IT systems, including CDU and in-rack/in-row manifold design, bring-up, and servicing.
- Experience responding to field issues and managing reliability through operational processes.
- Ability to own infrastructure from deployment through long-term maintenance and failure recovery.
Nice to have
Pay
$199K – $302K USD base salary
Tools
CDU
AI focus
Supports commissioning, deployment, and operations of AI data centers and their infrastructure.
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