Data Center Strategy Jobs

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Power & Land team owns the energy strategy required to secure reliable, scalable, and economically resilient power for OpenAI’s global data center portfolio. About the Role The Power Trading Lead will own commodity hedging strategy and execution across OpenAI’s data center power portfolio. This role will translate large, dynamic electricity and fuel exposures into practical hedging, procurement, and risk-management strategies that protect infrastructure economics while preserving flexibility for growth. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role will work across power markets, utility tariffs, retail and wholesale supply structures, natural gas and power hedges, renewable and clean firm products, and portfolio risk analytics to support long-term compute growth. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain OpenAI’s commodity hedging strategy across electricity, natural gas, and related energy exposures for data center operations and growth. Quantify portfolio exposure by market, site, load shape, tenor, tariff, and supply structure, and translate that exposure into clear hedging recommendations. Evaluate and execute hedging structures including fixed-price supply, forwards, swaps, options, retail supply products, congestion and basis risk mitigation, and related instruments where appropriate. Partner with utilities, suppliers, traders, banks, consultants, and market counterparties to source competitive products and improve risk-adjusted energy economics. Build decision frameworks for when to hedge, how much to hedge, and which risks to retain across different stages of site development, construction, and operations. Coordinate with finance, treasury, legal, procurement, energy regulatory, sustainability, and site-readiness teams to ensure hedging strategy aligns with broa

About the Team OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is building the infrastructure required to support the next generation of AI at unprecedented scale. Through a combination of strategic partnerships and self-built campuses, we are developing and operating large-scale data center infrastructure across power, cooling, networking, compute, construction, and site operations. The scale and complexity of this infrastructure introduces a broad range of environmental, health, and safety considerations across site development, design, construction, equipment deployment, commissioning, and ongoing operations. EHS is a critical part of how we build infrastructure that is safe, resilient, compliant, and capable of operating at scale. About the Role We are seeking an EHS Lead to establish and drive environmental, health, and safety strategy across OpenAI’s rapidly expanding compute infrastructure portfolio. This role will develop the EHS framework for large-scale data center development and operations, partnering closely with engineering, construction, infrastructure delivery, facilities, operations, security, legal, environmental, and external development partners. The EHS Lead will help ensure that safety and environmental considerations are embedded into projects from early design and site development through construction, commissioning, and operations. The role will establish standards and operating mechanisms, assess and mitigate risks, oversee EHS performance across internal teams and third-party partners, and provide technical leadership on complex or high-consequence safety issues. Success requires the ability to operate strategically while maintaining strong technical depth and executional rigor in fast-moving, highly complex infrastructure environments. In this role, you will: Develop and own EHS strategy, standards, programs, and operating mechanisms across OpenAI’s data center and compute infrastructure portfolio. Establish scalable EHS requirements for site de

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role We're seeking a Security Engineer to join our First-Party Hardware team. In this role, you will own the end-to-end security foundation for OpenAI's first-party AI hardware systems, working across hardware security, embedded security, system security, and practical deployment at data center scale. You will partner with silicon, hardware, firmware, infrastructure, manufacturing, operations, and security teams to define and deliver system-level device trust. This includes boot integrity, device identity, provisioning, attestation, management-plane security, storage encryption, debug controls, firmware update and recovery, RMA, and decommissioning. You will be accountable for turning threat models into requirements, requirements into implementation, and implementation into validation evidence that can support launch decisions. Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid: 3 days/week onsite) Relocation assistance available. In this role, you will: Own security requirements, threat models, validation strategy, and launch-readiness evidence for first-party hardware platforms from early design through production deployment. Design and review secure boot, measured boot, roots of trust, platform firmware resilience, firmware signing, recovery, and anti-rollback strategies across heterogeneous devices. Own device identity, provisioning, enrollment, attestation, certificate lifecycle, and key-management requirements across manufacturing and data center bring-up. Harden management

About the Team The Stargate team is responsible for building the physical infrastructure that powers large-scale AI systems. We design and deliver next-generation data centers optimized for dense compute clusters, advanced networking, and rapidly evolving hardware platforms. This work sits at the intersection of hardware engineering, systems architecture, and infrastructure execution—translating cutting-edge compute roadmaps into scalable, production-ready environments. Our teams partner across silicon vendors, server and storage OEMs, networking teams, and data center engineering organizations to bring new capacity online quickly, reliably, and at global scale. About the Role We are seeking a CPU & Storage Technical Lead to define and drive the server compute and storage architecture strategy for Stargate infrastructure. In this role, you will own technical direction across CPU platforms, memory configurations, local and disaggregated storage systems, and their integration into large-scale AI clusters. You will evaluate vendor roadmaps, lead platform tradeoff decisions, and ensure compute and storage systems are optimized for training, inference, and supporting services. You will work cross-functionally with hardware engineering, performance modeling, networking, supply chain, and deployment teams, as well as external partners such as AMD, Intel, OEMs, ODMs, and storage vendors. This is a highly strategic role for someone who can operate deeply at the component level while also driving long-range infrastructure decisions. Key Responsibilities Own CPU and storage technical strategy for Stargate compute infrastructure across current and future generations. Evaluate CPU platforms across performance, efficiency, memory bandwidth, PCIe topology, cost, and roadmap alignment. Define storage architectures for AI environments, including boot media, local NVMe, shared storage, caching tiers, metadata services, and high-performance data pipelines. Drive server platform de

About Yondr Yondr is a disruptor. We challenge convention and simplify complexity. A global developer, owner operator and service provider of data centers, we deliver complex data center capacity needs for the world’s largest tech companies. Our exponential growth sees us looking for extraordinary people to help accelerate us towards our vision: a tomorrow without constraints. But we can’t do this without you. About the Role With continued growth across our business, we are actively seeking to have a new member join our team. This is an exciting role to join an existing group of skilled development and investment professionals, enhancing the team capabilities and becoming an integral part of a rapidly growing business. We are searching for someone who has excellent quantitative and analytical skills, is comfortable building financial models and has experience with communicating with internal and external stakeholders. You will be a highly valued and trusted member of our ambitious and hardworking team, in a business that continues to scale to new heights. Main Responsibilities / Take responsibility for development and management of financial models and valuation analysis in support of potential transactions and investment opportunities / Support in all aspects of financing processes included due diligence, project management, data room management, financial analysis, legal negotiations and preparation of materials / Work closely with the Development and Finance teams to perform detailed financial analysis on new developments as well as existing portfolio assets / Production of presentation material for senior management, board members, investors, lenders and joint venture partners / Assist with commercial negotiation of legal contracts for transactions / Research and analysis of market trends and sector / asset valuations / Support in business strategy and individual project delivery /

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role OpenAI's Hardware organization builds supercompute platforms from silicon and boards to full rack-scale systems to power advanced AI workloads. This role owns end-to-end quality for high-speed interconnect hardware across the product lifecycle: early design influence, supplier/contract manufacturer readiness, qualification, ramp, and fleet quality in lab and data center environments. You will be the quality lead for advanced interconnect components and assemblies, including high-speed copper cables, cable cartridges, patch panels, backplane/cable-backplane solutions, high-speed connectors, and related electro-mechanical interfaces. You will partner closely with electrical, mechanical, SI/PI, systems, reliability, operations, and external vendors to prevent escapes and drive rapid, data-driven containment and corrective action. In this role you will: Own quality for advanced interconnect components and assemblies: high-speed connectors, high-speed copper cables, cable cartridges (e.g., cable cassette style assemblies), patch panels & optics, and backplane/cable-backplane interconnect solutions. Drive quality-by-design: participate in design reviews, DFM/DFx, tolerance stacks, material and plating selections, connector mating strategy, strain relief, and assembly methods to reduce variation and field failures. Define and track quality and reliability metrics (DPPM, yield, escapes, RMA/FRACAS trends, Cpk/Ppk where applicable) for interconnects across NPI and m

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Industrial Compute team is central to this mission, setting the core infra strategy and implementing this vision. From site selection to the buildout process, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, strategy, and operations, interacting with teams and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. About the Role The Clean Energy and New Technology Lead will own infrastructure clean energy and emerging energy technology strategy and execution, identifying and deploying scalable solutions that enable resilient, low-carbon compute and data center growth. The role will work closely with regulatory and policy teams to align infrastructure expansion with OpenAI’s long-term environmental and operational objectives. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role will evaluate where emerging energy technologies can materially improve reliability, cost, carbon, speed, or resilience; translate those options into practical deployment pathways; and help ensure OpenAI’s infrastructure growth remains aligned with sustainability considerations. Key Responsibilities Evaluate emerging energy solutions such as clean firm power, advanced storage, grid flexibility, low-carbon backup power, heat reuse, water-related energy efficiency, and other scalable technologies where relevant. Identify pilot opportunities and deployment pathways that can move promising energy technologies from concept to commercially and operationally credible execution. Translate technical options into clear reliability, cost, schedule, carbon, regulatory, and operational implications for infrastructure decision-making. Partner with energy regulatory, policy, procurement, engineering, deployment, finance, legal, and site-readiness teams to align technology and sustainability choices with

About the Job Set the performance direction behind large-scale AI systems built for real deployment. As a Principal AI Performance Engineer, you will define how Graphcore analyzes and optimizes AI training and inference workloads. Your work will shape decisions across hardware, software, networking and system architecture. You will lead the hardest performance investigations, from model behavior to multi-node scaling. You will turn profiling, benchmarking and modeling evidence into technical roadmaps and engineering priorities. You will set measurement standards, guide distributed communication strategy and review critical C++ and Python tools. Your judgment will help teams make better decisions when data is incomplete. This role gives you rare influence across AI infrastructure at data center scale. It is based in Austin, Texas. The team and culture The System Engineering Performance team architects, evaluates and optimizes high-performance infrastructure for large-scale data center deployments. The team works across the computing stack to understand real system behavior. Work happens through evidence, technical ownership and direct cross-team influence. You will guide strategy, resolve complex tradeoffs and raise performance-engineering standards across the organization. Decisions are shaped by benchmarks, simulations, models and clear technical debate. The team values engineers who think big, act fast, take responsibility, speak up and lead beyond their own area. What we’re looking for · Deep experience profiling and optimizing AI, machine learning or high-performance computing workloads at scale. · Proven technical leadership across complex performance-engineering or system-architecture initiatives. · Expert C++ and Python skills, including reliable tools or performance-sensitive software. · Expert understanding of compute, memory, communication and scaling behavior in distributed systems. · Ability to define benchmarks, measurement practices or optimization sta

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary CVS Health is seeking a highly skilled and visionary Sr. Manager to lead and manage our enterprise Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) environment and the transition to Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC). This role sits within the Network Engineering team and is pivotal to driving the modernization and scalability of our next-generation data center fabric. This role will help set and drive the network technology strategy for ISTS, ensuring that ISTS delivers on our mission to transform technology and provide an agile, cost optimized and resilient set of network infrastructure services to meet the evolving needs of all the CVS Health lines of business. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting complex enterprise network environments and demonstrate deep expertise in Cisco ACI and NDFC technologies. As a strategic leader, you will be responsible for setting the direction, leading a team of engineers, and ensuring the operational integrity, performance, and evolution of our fabric-based data center architecture. This position will also mentor staff members in an effort to develop excellent enterprise networking skills. Key Responsibilities Lead the deployment, administration, and lifecycle management of the Cisco ACI environment Oversee the strategic transition to and ongoing management of the Cisco

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. We are building a high-impact hyperscale sales capability focused on some of the most influential technology customers in the world. Our team partners closely with engineering, product, and business leaders to shape infrastructure at global scale—spanning cloud, AI, and next-generation data center architectures. If you enjoy operating at the intersection of strategy, technology, and customer influence, this is a space where your work will have visible impact across industries. This role serves as the global account leader for a strategic hyperscale customer, owning revenue, relationships, and long-term positioning. You will guide multi-year account strategy, influence system architecture decisions, and lead cross-functional teams to expand market share. The position blends commercial leadership with technical engagement, making it ideal for someone who can navigate both executive conversations and engineering-driven discussions! Responsibilities: Own and implement global account strategy across regions and business units to drive revenue, margin, and long-term growth Build and lead executive relationships, influencing decisions across business and technical stakeholders Lead sophisticated commercial negotiations including LTAs, pricing frameworks, and supply agreements Engage early in customer architecture cycles; align internal roadmaps to drive design wins and workload expansion Lead cros

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team builds next-generation AI-native silicon and systems while working closely with software, research, and manufacturing partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering systems for OpenAI’s supercomputing infrastructure, the team develops the tools, methodologies, and strategic partnerships needed to accelerate hardware innovation. About the Role We’re seeking an experienced Hardware Strategic Sourcing Manager to own sourcing strategy and supplier partnerships for fiber and optical interconnect components across OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure. Reporting to the Head of Partnerships & Strategic Sourcing, you will lead sourcing across fiber cable assemblies, internal optical harnesses, fiber shuffles, optical backplane assemblies, connectorized and standalone passive optical assemblies, fiber-array units (FAUs), fiber-to-chip and coupling interfaces, detachable connectors, optical routing, and assigned optical packaging, assembly, and test services. You will work closely with electrical engineering, optical engineering, systems engineering, mechanical and packaging engineering, quality, rack integration, data-center deployment,manufacturing, supply chain, finance, legal, and program management teams to translate demanding bandwidth, signal integrity, reliability, and scale requirements into resilient supplier partnerships and scalable commercial strategies. Your work will directly support the performance, reliability, manufacturability, and scale of the high-speed optical connectivity required for OpenAI’s next-generation AI systems. In this role, you will: Develop and execute a comprehensive sourcing strategy for fiber and optical interconnect components supporting high-bandwidth AI systems and infrastructure. Own sourcing across optical fiber cable assembli

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. The Compute Data Center Business Unit (CDBU) drives the strategy, positioning, and market adoption of advanced memory and storage technologies developed for data center, cloud, AI, and high-performance computing environments. Working closely with engineering, product management, marketing, business development, and field sales teams, the organization focuses on delivering customer value through industry-leading technologies, data-driven insights, and market-focused solutions. As an MBA Intern within CDBU, you will support priority EMEAIJ and Rest of World initiatives by conducting market analysis, developing customer-facing content, and crafting go-to-market recommendations for key verticals such as Financial Services and Sovereign AI. You will work with engineering and business teams to turn complex workload and infrastructure needs into clear business value. You will use AI and market intelligence to build impactful outcomes. Responsibilities Conduct market and opportunity assessments for targeted industry verticals, including total addressable market (TAM), customer segments, workload trends, ecosystem participants, and whitespace opportunities. Develop customer-facing solution narratives, vertical playbooks, discovery guides, and marketing content that communicate the value of memory and storage solutions for data center workloads. Collaborate with Data Center Workload Engineering (DCWE), product managers, marketing teams, business

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. Join an inclusive team passionate about one thing: using their expertise in the relentless pursuit of innovation for customers and partners. The solutions we build help make everything from virtual reality experiences to breakthroughs in neural networks possible. We do it all while committing to integrity, sustainability, and giving back to our communities. Because doing so can fuel the very innovation we are pursuing. The Principal Engineer, SSD Validation provides technical leadership for SSD firmware validation and test architecture across enterprise, data center, and automotive SSD products. This role owns validation strategy, automation frameworks, and quality systems that ensure product reliability, performance, scalability, and manufacturing readiness. The position leads cross-functional collaboration to resolve complex firmware issues, influences product and validation roadmaps, and drives continuous improvement in test efficiency through automation, CI/CD integration, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Main Responsibilities Lead SSD firmware test architecture, validation strategy, and quality systems for enterprise SSD products. Design and implement validation solutions covering functionality, performance, reliability, QoS, power loss protection (PLP), flash translation layer (FTL), garbage collection (GC), power management, and security features. Build and optimize automation frameworks, long-duration stability test systems, and CI/CD validation pipelines to support large-scale qualification and production readiness. Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex firmware issues, including system hangs, drive drops, co

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. Our Data Center Business Unit (CDBU) is at the forefront of enabling next-generation server solutions that power AI and high-performance computing workloads. We work on ground breaking DRAM technologies that directly impact a significant portion of Micron’s revenue. Join a team that is crafting the future of data infrastructure and driving innovation in one of the fastest-growing technology segments! We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead DRAM product strategy and lifecycle management for data center applications. In this role, you will translate customer needs into product requirements, influence roadmap decisions, and partner closely with engineering, marketing, and customers to deliver high-impact solutions. This is a highly visible role where your expertise will shape product direction and help drive adoption across the server ecosystem. Responsibilities: Define and drive multi-year DRAM product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle execution Translate customer and market needs into clear product requirements and value propositions Serve as the DRAM product expert with customers and industry partners Lead demand forecasting strategy, including competitive analysis and market modeling Identify and integrate high-value AI use cases into product planning and workflows Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree

EnCharge AI is a leader in advanced AI hardware and software systems for edge-to-cloud computing. EnCharge’s robust and scalable next-generation in-memory computing technology provides orders-of-magnitude higher compute efficiency and density compared to today’s best-in-class solutions. The high-performance architecture is coupled with seamless software integration and will enable the immense potential of AI to be accessible in power, energy, and space constrained applications. EnCharge AI launched in 2022 and is led by veteran technologists with backgrounds in semiconductor design and AI systems. Lead DFT Engineer Job Description: Developing silicon for edge-to-cloud computing isn't just about speed; it’s about balancing high-performance data processing with extreme power efficiency and reliability in remote environments. As the Design for Test (DFT) Lead, you will be the architect of our testing strategy, ensuring our data center chips are flawlessly manufacturable and resilient enough for edge deployment. Key Responsibilities: Architectural Leadership: Define and implement the end-to-end DFT architecture for complex SoCs, including Hierarchical DFT, Scan compression, Boundary Scan and MBIST. Edge-Specific Reliability: Develop strategies for In-System Test (IST) and power-on self-test (POST) to ensure chip health in remote edge data centers. Implementation & Flow: Oversee scan insertion, ATPG (Stuck-at, Transition, Path Delay), and Memory /Logic BIST. Cross-Functional Synergy: Collaborate with Design, Physical Design, and Yield teams to ensure high test coverage while minimizing area overhead and power impact as well as timing analysis . Post-Silicon Validation: Lead the bring-up and debug phase on ATE (Automated Test Equipment) to root-cause silicon failures and optimize test time. Technical Requirements: Experience: 12+ years in DFT, with at least 2 years in a leadership or principal role. Bachelor’s degree in a related field. Tools: