5-7 years of experience in Technical Program Management or Engineering, specifically in Lab or Datacenter design.
Strong knowledge of data center infrastructure, including servers, GPUs, TPUs, networking, and storage.
Experience with product development processes, particularly New Product Introduction (NPI).
Familiarity with Lab infrastructure equipment requirements for product development.
Proven track record of taking products from concept to volume in a data center environment.
Responsibilities
Manage the overall Lab strategy to ensure alignment with product roadmaps.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external contractors to deliver new Lab facilities on time.
Utilize technical knowledge to influence Lab design and make necessary trade-offs.
Ensure ongoing lab availability to support product development and debugging activities.
Lead internal resources and facilitate communication with partners and vendors.
Benefits
Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week.
Relocation assistance for new employees.
Full Job Description
About the Role
As the 1P Systems Lab Technical Program Manager, you will bring Lab infrastructure development knowledge and TPM experience to build out industry leading lab environments which are key to developing products and bringing the hardware roadmap to life. You'll navigate an array of technical and partnership challenges as you work to develop our existing lab locations and deliver new sites on schedule. We're looking for people excited to push the frontiers of computing and passionate about building.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Manage the end-to-end Lab strategy ensuring we have capacity and capabilities in place to successfully deliver the product roadmaps.
Work cross-functionally and with external general contractors to develop and deliver new Lab facilities on schedule.
Leveraging your Lab and datacenter construction technical knowledge to influence Lab design, including making trade-offs with internal and external partners.
Manage on-going lab availability to ensure lab facilities and capabilities are in place to support product bring-up, debug activities, and all on-going development work
Coordinate and lead internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have experience leading high-power Lab or Datacenter design programs as a Technical Program Manager or Engineer from site selection to completion.
Data center infrastructure and product knowledge (e.g. server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage), including product development (NPI) processes.
Knowledge of Lab infrastructure equipment requirements to support product development.
Experience taking products from concept to volume in a data center environment, ensuring the systems scale with high quality.
Are eager to help design some of the world's largest supercomputing systems, working at the edge of complex hardware challenges.
Enjoy working with and enabling world-class AI Researchers and Engineers.
Are passionate about the technical program function and enjoy independently owning and delivering on your teams' goals and cutting-edge problems in AI compute.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
