Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Facilities Operations Lead will support the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of next-generation AI data centers, ensuring seamless integration of infrastructure with hardware deployment timelines.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute sequences of operations, commissioning steps, and bring-up processes for mission-critical data center facilities
- Interface with the design and hardware teams to define deployment procedures tailored to each data center and hardware configuration
- Oversee installation, commissioning, and operational readiness of large-scale data center campuses
- Manage monitoring, maintenance, and quality control of the data center infrastructure, including high-performance liquid cooling systems
- Develop on-site operations staffing strategy
- Develop and enforce procedures for planned and unplanned downtime and SLAs for critical facility components
Skills
- Have 10+ years of experience in large-scale data center facility operations, commissioning, or critical infrastructure engineering
- Are deeply familiar with liquid-cooled IT systems, including CDU and in-rack/in-row manifold design, bring-up, and servicing
- Enjoy defining and improving infrastructure processes at the intersection of construction, hardware, and operations
- Are comfortable owning infrastructure from deployment to long-term maintenance and failure recovery
- Have experience responding to field issues and managing reliability through well-defined operational processes
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