OpenAI
Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer
$257K–$327K
San Francisco +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Apr 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Seattle
US - Remote - Experience
- 10+ years required; 15+ years preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, power systems, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
About the job
Leads the design, validation, and deployment of reliable electrical power architectures for high-density, liquid-cooled AI data centers.
What you'll do
- Design and optimize power topologies and equipment strategies, and review electrical designs, specifications, and power-system studies.
- Lead vendor qualification, lab and field testing, commissioning, and technical escalation for critical infrastructure and rack deployments.
- Define controls and telemetry requirements; analyze incidents and test data to improve reliability, procedures, and standards.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience in mission-critical facilities such as data centers or comparable critical infrastructure.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, power systems, or a related discipline.
- Hands-on experience with MV/LV distribution and critical power equipment, including transformers, switchgear, generators, UPS systems, batteries, PDUs, and protection systems.
- Experience producing or reviewing electrical designs, studies, specifications, commissioning plans, and test procedures; leading acceptance testing and root-cause investigations.
Nice to have
- 15+ years of relevant experience.
- Advanced degree, professional engineering certification, or direct experience with hyperscale data centers, GPU clusters, or liquid-cooled compute.
Pay
$257K – $327K USD base salary
Tools
BMS, EPMS, DCIM, SCADA, PLCs, BESS, HVDC/LVDC
AI focus
Develops and validates electrical infrastructure and rack-power architectures that support high-density AI compute and liquid-cooled GPU deployments.
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