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Strategic Deals

OpenAI · San Francisco

$293k - $342k/yrScalingComputePosted 2 months ago
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ABOUT THE TEAM The Industrial Compute team is responsible for building and scaling the infrastructure foundation that powers OpenAI’s research and products. The team works across compute strategy, infrastructure planning, hardware partnerships, and capacity management to ensure OpenAI can meet rapidly growing training and inference demands with resilient, efficient, and future-looking infrastructure systems. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Strategic Deals Leader, you will help shape OpenAI's long-term approach to AI infrastructure, compute capacity, and strategic ecosystem partnerships. Operating at the intersection of infrastructure strategy, technology evaluation, commercial partnerships, and market development, you will identify and execute opportunities that expand OpenAI's access to the compute, infrastructure, and technologies required to support frontier AI systems. You will work closely with engineering, infrastructure, finance, and executive leadership teams to evaluate emerging technologies, develop ecosystem strategies, assess build-versus-buy decisions, and cultivate strategic relationships across hardware vendors, cloud providers, data center operators, and the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem. We’re looking for people who combine deep understanding of AI infrastructure and emerging technology ecosystems with strong strategic judgment, technical curiosity, and the ability to build partnerships across a rapidly evolving industry landscape. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL - Develop and execute strategies that expand OpenAI's access to compute, infrastructure, and emerging AI technologies. - Evaluate strategic opportunities across hardware platforms, cloud providers, infrastructure partners, and ecosystem participants. - Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to understand future workload requirements and translate them into long-term compute and ecosystem strategies. - Assess build-versus-buy tradeoffs across infrastructure, platform, and capacity decisions. - B

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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