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Technical Program Manager, Core Network & WAN Infrastructure

OpenAI · San Francisco

$162k - $335k/yrRemoteMid levelEngineeringTechnical Program ManagementTechnical Program ManagementPosted 2 months ago

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About the Team The compute infrastructure team runs the GPU fleet and large-scale compute clusters that serve the models backing ChatGPT and the API, while also supporting training workloads for our next generation models. We operate a large, modern GPU fleet and provide a unified platform for other OpenAI teams to seamlessly run production Applied AI and Research training workloads. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role You will join an engineer-first TPM team and own end-to-end delivery of OpenAI’s WAN Infrastructure, partnering with engineers to bring clusters online across external providers and partners. This is a hands-on infrastructure execution role. You’ll run a broad, parallel portfolio spanning hardware, cabling, optics, cloud cross-connects, and port maps - driving execution, risk management, and crisp alignment from working teams through leadership to deliver production-ready capacity at scale. The right person combines enough technical depth to reason through physical and logical network readiness with the program discipline and ownership to keep complex builds moving and improve how we scale. 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. In this role, you will: - Lead end-to-end delivery of OpenAI’s WAN build-out and large-scale GPU clusters across an external partner ecosystem - Drive multi-threaded network infrastructure bring-up programs across physical and logical readiness - owning plans, dependencies, and critical paths - Partner with engineering to turn up large-scale network capacity, reducing bring-up time for our largest GPU supercomputers by working across optics, circuits - Identify recurring bottlenecks in WAN and network infrastructure build-out, then drive fixes that make future bui

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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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