Lead Infrastructure Software Engineer Jobs

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 OpenAI is seeking a Real Estate Lead to own land acquisition strategy and site-control execution for our next-generation data center portfolio across the U.S. This role sits at the front end of infrastructure delivery, translating market intelligence, broker/developer relationships, and commercial judgment into credible shovel-ready positions that meet OpenAI’s power, land, permitting, and expansion requirements. The Real Estate Lead will not operate as a traditional transactional real estate function. The scope is to help shape where OpenAI can build, secure the right land positions early, structure defensible commercial terms, and coordinate the legal, technical, and development work required to move opportunities from sourced lead to controlled site and ultimately to readiness handoff. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role also owns market prioritization and portfolio-level acquisition strategy across target geographies, and is expected to run multiple negotiations in parallel while translating site-control work into executive-ready acquisition recommendations. Key Responsibilities Own market prioritization and portfolio acquisition strategy across target geographies, including scenario analysis for speed, scale, expansion potential, and risk-adjusted economics. Proactively source and evaluate land parcels at scale to support long-term data center growth across priority markets. Build and manage a national pipeline of

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, 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 Responsible for validating that proposed sites are buildable, compliant, and cost-effective. You will lead diligence across civil, geotechnical, environmental, and entitlement dimensions, identifying risks and driving mitigation strategies. Key Responsibilities Lead all technical diligence: geotech, soils, title/ALTA surveys, mineral rights, and access. Oversee permitting/entitlement path and schedule governance with agencies. Evaluate generator air permits, wetlands, floodplain, and stormwater constraints. Manage consultants performing feasibility studies and environmental assessments. Deliver go/no-go recommendations with risk and mitigation options. Build diligence templates and playbooks to scale future site reviews. Qualifications 8+ years in land development, civil/environmental engineering, or data center diligence. Knowledge of permitting, entitlements, and AHJ engagement. Strong project management and technical review skills. Experience managing consultants and interpreting complex studies. Regularly communicate site readiness updates, risks, and milestones to executive stakeholders Establish and track key performance indicators to assess the effectiveness of the site selection program and the contributions of external vendors and partners. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely depl

About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customers’ adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others, to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We are looking for a hands-on lead to build and run OpenAI's Incidents & Escalations function within User Operations. This is a player-coach role with a meaningful hands-on operating component. You will set the operating model and also step into active incidents and urgent escalations when needed, coordinating with on-call teams, driving clear ownership, supporting communications, and ensuring issues move through resolution and post-incident closure. During active incidents, you will coordinate with the relevant on-call teams and cross-functional responders across Engineering, Infrastructure, Support Delivery, Product, and Go-To-Market. You will help keep teams aligned, maintain timelines, clarify ownership, escalate when needed, and ensure internal, executive, customer-facing, and external communications are accurate and timely, including status page updates when required. For escalations, you will build and run the processes for tracking, triaging, mitigating, and resolving critical customer and user issues. After incidents and escalations, you will own the follow-through: retrospectives, root cause identification, action item tracking, trend analysis, and process improvements that reduce repeat issues over time. You will also help define the long-term operating model for incidents and escalations across Support D

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 Community Engagement Lead will serve as the primary liaison between OpenAI and the communities where it plans to develop data centers, including Effingham County and the greater Savannah Metropolitan Area. This role ensures that OpenAI builds strong, trust-based relationships with local stakeholders, communicates proactively about our projects, and integrates community priorities into our development approach. The role spans engagement, communications, and reputation management, and will partner closely with the Economic Development and Environmental leads. Key Responsibilities Build and maintain relationships with local leaders, community organizations, NGOs, and residents. Develop and execute community engagement strategies for new and existing sites. Represent OpenAI in public forums, hearings, and community events. Partner with the Economic Development Lead on incentive compliance and community benefits. Partner with the Environmental Lead on communicating environmental stewardship and sustainability efforts. Develop proactive communications to address concerns, highlight benefits, and reduce risk of opposition. Monitor community sentiment and advise executives on risks and opportunities. Create a community engagement playbook that can scale across geographies. Qualifications 8+ years in community affairs, public engagement, or corporate communications. Proven track record engaging diverse community stakeholders for large infrastructure or technology projects. Strong publ

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 Infrastructure team is central to this mission, setting the core strategy and implementing the vision. From site selection to deployment to operations, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, and operational domains, interacting with experts and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. We design and operate mission-critical facilities that support cutting-edge AI workloads at scale. About the Role We are seeking a Facilities Operations Lead to support the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of our next-generation AI data centers. This role bridges the interface between data center construction and hardware landing, ensuring seamless integration of mission-critical infrastructure with hardware deployment timelines. You will define and execute commissioning plans, support infrastructure bring-up, and take ownership of operations and maintenance for cutting-edge, large-scale, AI data centers. You will collaborate closely with design, construction, and hardware teams to define repeatable processes for new data center builds and lead hands-on operations to uphold the performance and reliability of our deployed infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Define and execute sequences of operations, commissioning steps, and bring-up processes for mission-critical data center facilities. Interface with the design and hardware teams to define deployment procedures tailored to each data center and hardware configuration. Oversee installation, commissioning, and operational readiness of large-scale data center campuses. Manage monitoring, maintenance, and quality control of the data center infrastructure, including high-performance liquid cooling systems. Develop on-site operations staffing strategy. Develop and enforce procedures for planed and unplanned downtime and SLAs for critical

About the Team OpenAI’s Security organization exists to enable safe, responsible innovation at scale. As our systems, infrastructure, and research footprint grow, we invest deeply in world-class security capabilities that protect our people, products, and users without slowing progress. This organization safeguards OpenAI’s environments by building advanced detection systems, driving real-time response capabilities, scaling telemetry and logging infrastructure, and delivering actionable threat intelligence to stay ahead of adversaries. About the Role We are seeking a Global Detection and Response Lead to own and scale OpenAI’s cybersecurity detection and response operations. In this role, you will set the strategy and drive execution for security monitoring, incident response, recovery, and post-incident improvements across our global infrastructure. You will be a hands-on leader with deep technical credibility and strong operational instincts. You will build and mentor high-performing teams, partner closely with Infrastructure, Research, Product Security, Enterprise Security, IT, and Engineering, and ensure that detection and response capabilities are embedded by design into the systems that power OpenAI. This is a strategic and practical leadership role requiring deep technical credibility, operational rigor, and the ability to build high-performing teams in a fast-moving environment. In this role, you will: Oversee global detection and response operations, including continuous monitoring, triage, investigation, containment, and remediation of security events across a diverse set of networks and infrastructure. Lead, mentor, and directly manage several small teams of senior engineers across observability, detection and response, and threat intelligence. Hire and scale these functions deliberately and proportionately as OpenAI’s compute footprint and platform ambitions grow. Ensure world-class operational rigor and readiness through management of incident playbooks

About the Role We’re looking for a senior Strategic Finance Lead to help shape and execute OpenAI’s financial strategy across some of the company’s most important long-term investments and growth priorities. This high-impact role sits at the intersection of corporate finance, capital markets, treasury, and cross-functional execution. In this role, you will: Shape financial strategy for major long-term investments, capital structure decisions, and broader strategic decision-making. Build rigorous financial models and scalable frameworks to evaluate strategic initiatives, funding options, tradeoffs, and risk. Structure and help execute complex strategic initiatives in partnership with cross-functional teams. Translate ambiguous technical and business inputs into clear recommendations and decision-ready materials for executives, the board, and other senior stakeholders. Lead high-priority cross-functional workstreams from concept through execution, bringing strong judgment, ownership, and communication in fast-moving situations. Help build an AI-native finance organization by applying AI to improve workflows, decision-making, and execution across finance processes. You might thrive in this role if you have: 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, infrastructure finance, or related fields. A strong understanding of capital structure, financing strategy, debt markets, and large-scale investment evaluation. Experience operating in high-growth, high-complexity environments with the ability to navigate ambiguity and move quickly. Exceptional financial modeling, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capabilities. Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate clearly across investors, executives, and technical stakeholders. A high-agency operating style that combines strategic perspective with a willingness to build directly. Excitement around using AI as a core operating advantage, with a mindset

About the Team: The IT Project Technology Lead is a strategic professional at the intersection of technology leadership and business impact — a recognized subject matter authority who brings both depth of expertise and the foresight to shape directional decisions that extend well beyond their immediate domain. This is not a role for those who simply manage tasks; it is a role for those who understand how technology, people, and process converge to drive transformation at scale. At Citi, where every system and solution ultimately serves hundreds of millions of customers across more than 160 countries, this individual operates at a level where their technical judgment carries real organizational weight. The successful candidate will work alongside senior project staff, technology architects, infrastructure teams, and client-facing leadership to ensure that complex, high-impact initiatives are delivered with precision, clarity, and strategic intent. They will influence functional decisions through trusted counsel, champion process improvements that raise the performance bar, and serve as a guide and mentor to the analysts and practitioners who look to them for direction. Their work does not stop at execution — it shapes how Citi's technology landscape evolves, how risk is managed with integrity, and how the organization positions itself to meet the demands of an ever-changing global financial environment. Responsibilities: Develops detailed IT work plans, schedules; project estimates, resource plans and status reports. Interfaces with senior project staff and client senior management teams regarding status of projects. Recommends and oversees process improvements. Has considerable business impact through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes and industry s

NVIDIA’s EDA Infrastructure organization builds and operates the systems that support chip development. We are looking for an engineering manager to lead the team responsible for operational processes and platforms across incident management, maintenance, on-call, issue management, and customer-serving readiness. You will own the roadmap and delivery, from defining how teams work to building the tools they use. You will partner with infrastructure and service owners to improve reliability, reduce manual work, and ensure services are ready to support customers. Your team will use automation, AI, and lessons from operational events to drive improvements. What you’ll be doing: Lead a team and own the roadmap for operational processes and platforms, from requirements and delivery through adoption and results. Set technical direction, prioritize work, and guide execution across engineering and operational disciplines. Partner with infrastructure, product, and security teams to establish consistent practices for incident response, maintenance, on-call, issue management, and customer-serving readiness. Hire and develop engineers and technical leads, building a team with clear ownership and accountability. Align priorities across teams, communicate progress and risks, and provide technical leadership during major incidents. What we need to see: <span style="co

The Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities. Responsibilities: Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as necessary Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency. Recommended Qualifications: 6&#43; years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role Extensive exp

Work Flexibility: Remote As a Senior Lead, Data Engineering, you will serve as a technical leader who helps shape the future of enterprise data solutions. In this role, you will drive complex data initiatives, influence technical strategy, and partner with teams across the organization to build scalable, high-impact data products. This is an opportunity to solve challenging business problems while mentoring fellow engineers and elevating data engineering best practices. What You Will Do Lead the architecture, development, and modernization of scalable enterprise data platforms that support global procurement analytics and business transformation. Define and help execute a multi-year data engineering strategy focused on platform scalability, reliability, automation, technical debt reduction, and long-term maintainability. Design, build, and optimize Azure-based data solutions using technologies such as Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation. Integrate and harmonize data across multiple ERP systems by standardizing supplier, purchasing, and master data into common enterprise data models. Partner with procurement analysts, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business needs into reusable, scalable data products and engineering solutions. Establish engineering standards, conduct architecture reviews, improve documentation, and mentor engineers to raise the overall technical capability of the team. Identify and implement AI-enabled approaches that accelerate development, improve data quality, automate documentation, support testing, and enhance analyst productivity. Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, patterns, and platform investments that improve performance, reliability, security, governance, and operational ef

Strategic Projects Lead, Managed Services Team: Client Services Prolific Prolific isn’t just enabling AI innovation – we’re redefining it. While foundational AI technologies are becoming commoditized, Prolific’s human data infrastructure provides the high-quality, diverse data required to train the next generation of AI models. Through our platform, we empower researchers and companies to access a global, ethically curated participant base, ensuring cutting-edge AI research and training grounded in inclusivity and precision. The Role As a Strategic projects lead focused on AI projects, you’ll play a key role in delivering some of Prolific’s most important and complex client programmes. You’ll own client engagements end to end, working directly with clients to understand what they’re trying to achieve and translating their requirements into successful human data programmes. You’ll bring together teams across Prolific to deliver the right solution, while owning the client relationship, project execution and overall success of the engagement. This is a hands-on role in a fast-moving area of AI. Projects can be complex and requirements can evolve quickly, so you’ll need to be comfortable working through ambiguity, getting into the detail when needed and making sound decisions to keep delivery moving. You’ll combine strong client management with an understanding of AI and human data workflows, helping us deliver excellent work for our clients while continuing to improve how we deliver AI projects at scale. What You’ll Be Doing Own the end-to-end delivery of complex AI projects, from understanding client requirements and shaping the delivery approach through to execution and completion. Act as the primary point of contact for your clients, building strong relationships and providing clear, consistent communication throughout the project lifecycle. Work with clients to translate complex or evolving requirements into clear project scopes, delivery plans,

As Sigma scales its global footprint, the Sales Engineering (SE) organization is the technical engine driving our GTM motion. We are looking for a Strategy and Operations Lead, SE to partner directly with our VP of SE and serve as the operational bedrock for this critical organization. Operating within our broader GTM Strategy & Operations team, you will own the global operating rhythm, operational infrastructure, and capacity planning for the entire SE organization. You will drive strategy across a highly matrixed, global environment. You are part strategist, part builder, and part operator - responsible for ensuring our pre-sales motion scales seamlessly. What You Will Do Drive Business Reporting & the SE Operating Rhythm: Own the cadence of the SE organization. Design and execute regular business reviews and leverage Sigma to build robust, real-time reporting that gives the VP of SE crystal-clear visibility into technical pipeline health, team utilization, and conversion metrics. Optimize Funnel Mechanics & Deal Acceleration: Deep dive into the pre-sales funnel to identify where deals stall during technical validation. Partner with SE leadership to optimize the Proof of Concept (POC) lifecycle, remove friction, and accelerate the technical win. Lead Global Headcount & Capacity Planning: Serve as the SE representative in cross-functional GTM planning cycles. Own end-to-end global SE capacity requirements, design territory allocation frameworks, and manage annual headcount planning seamlessly across AMER, EMEA, and APAC. Build Solutions in Sigma: Leverage Sigma itself to build robust operational solutions, designing the dashboards, data models, and workflows needed for POC tracking, capacity management, and performance visibility. Act as the Cross-Functional Hub: Represent the SE organization in all major GTM Strategy & Operations initiatives. Serve as the connective tissue between SE, Sales, Product, and RevOps, ensuring SE requir

Overview Scale’s Finance Systems and Automation team is looking for a builder-oriented team member to help design and develop integrations, automations, and AI agents that streamline workflows across Finance, Accounting, People, and Recruiting. In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, People Operations, and Recruiting to understand their workflows and build integrations, automations, and agentic workflows that reduce manual effort and accelerate execution across these teams. You will leverage our internal data infrastructure, system integration tooling, and emerging AI platforms to architect scalable solutions — from traditional system integrations to intelligent agent-driven workflows — that serve as the foundation for long-term operational efficiency. We’re looking for someone who thrives on connecting systems, automating repetitive processes, and pushing toward more autonomous, AI-assisted operations. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, designing solutions that scale, and rigorously validating outcomes end to end. What You’ll Do Design and build agent-driven workflows and automation systems across People Operations, Recruiting, Finance, and Accounting Identify opportunities to replace manual or rules-based processes with agentic workflows Partner with stakeholders to translate business processes into scalable, automated solutions Lead the implementation of end-to-end workflows, from requirements through deployment and validation Automate candidate-to-employee transitions (e.g., Greenhouse → HRIS → provisioning systems) Build workflows to manage employee lifecycle events such as onboarding, transfers, and offboarding Automate approval flows and data synchronization across People, Finance, and Recruiting systems Support accounting and finance workflows through scalable integrations and automation Design and implement the underlying integrations and data flows that enable reliable automation and agent behavior Est