OpenAI
Data Center Design Manager
$225K–$285K
US - Remote · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Coordinates multidisciplinary design and delivery of data center infrastructure for large-scale AI deployments, from early planning through construction and turnover.
What you'll do
- Manage design scope, deliverables, milestones, and dependencies through detailed design and construction support.
- Coordinate discipline interfaces, design reviews, external partners, and resolution of technical risks and decisions.
- Support construction and commissioning, maintain design documentation, and incorporate field and operational lessons into standards.
What they ask for
- 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 interfaces among power, cooling, controls, structures, and physical networks.
- Experience coordinating design packages from early planning through construction support and coordinating external design and construction partners.
Nice to have
- Experience with hyperscale data centers, high-density AI or HPC infrastructure, liquid cooling, or high-density power distribution.
- Familiarity with BIM, model coordination, clash detection, and engineering document-control tools.
Pay
USD $225K – $285K base salary
Tools
BIM
AI focus
Coordinates data center infrastructure design for large-scale AI deployments, including high-density AI compute requirements.
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