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OpenAI19 days ago

Data Center Infrastructure Architect

🇺🇸USSan Francisco, USsenior

Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary

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OpenAI is seeking a senior Data Center Infrastructure Architect to lead the physical infrastructure development for large-scale AI deployments.

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The role requires bridging multiple engineering disciplines, combining hardware, mechanical, electrical, and computational modeling expertise.

3

Ideal candidates have extensive experience in hyperscale data center design, simulation, and digital-twin methodologies.

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Applicants lacking cross-disciplinary systems engineering experience or physical infrastructure design expertise should not apply.

Role Responsibilities

  • 1Define system-level architectures for high-density AI data centers across power, cooling, IT equipment, controls, and facility infrastructure.
  • 2Develop digital twins and computational models representing data center behavior under changing workloads and failure scenarios.
  • 3Identify constraints, improve efficiency metrics like PUE and WUE, and optimize capacity, reliability, and deployment schedules.
  • 4Evaluate tradeoffs across electrical topology, cooling architecture, rack density, and redundancy.
  • 5Establish reference architectures, modeling standards, and validation methodologies for customer deployments.
  • 6Integrate telemetry from systems like BMS, EPMS, DCIM, and SCADA into modeling and optimization workflows.

Skills Matrix

Must-Have Skills

6 required
Data Center Infrastructure
Digital Twins
Thermal Management(cooling)
Power Distribution
Simulation Modeling(physics-based modeling)
Telemetry Integration(BMS)

Nice-to-Have Skills

0 preferred
No optional skills specified for this role.
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