OpenAI
Fire Protection Engineer
$177K–$285K
US - Remote · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of fire protection engineering experience supporting data centers, industrial facilities, advanced manufacturing, energy infrastructure, or other mission-critical environments.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Fire Protection Engineering or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience delivering fire and life-safety systems.
About the job
Leads owner-side fire and life-safety engineering for large-scale data center campuses from design through construction, commissioning, and operational handover.
What you'll do
- Develop design criteria and review fire protection plans, specifications, calculations, submittals, and operational sequences.
- Coordinate with project teams, authorities, and delivery partners; resolve code, construction, and approval issues.
- Define testing and turnover requirements, assess campus fire risks, and support incident reviews and corrective actions.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Fire Protection Engineering or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience delivering fire and life-safety systems.
- Strong knowledge of applicable building and fire codes and standards, including IBC, IFC, NFPA requirements, and local approval processes.
- Technical depth in fire alarm and detection, suppression, fire pumps and water supply, smoke control, egress, and integrated life-safety systems.
- Professional Engineer licensure in Fire Protection Engineering, or the ability to obtain licensure in relevant jurisdictions.
Nice to have
- Experience with hyperscale data centers, high-density compute environments, or global multi-site infrastructure programs.
- Familiarity with performance-based design, fire and smoke modeling, quantitative risk assessment, or fire-hazard analysis.
Pay
$177K – $285K USD base salary
Tools
IBC, IFC, NFPA
AI focus
Supports the infrastructure and fire-safety systems of campuses that power frontier AI models.
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