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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 be the primary bridge between OpenAI and the communities in Ohio. 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 public speaking and facilitation skills. Ability to manage sensitive political and reputational issues. Experienc

About the Team We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. Your mission is to build and grow partnerships across the cybersecurity ecosystem. Reporting to the Cybersecurity Partnerships Lead, you will own a portfolio of cybersecurity technology partners and help them validate, launch, and scale solutions powered by OpenAI models and platforms. About the Role You are an experienced partnerships operator who combines business development, partner management, technical curiosity, and strong execution. You can manage external relationships while driving detailed cross-functional work across product, engineering, technical success, sales, marketing, legal, security, and operations. You move with urgency, follow through consistently, and are comfortable managing a portfolio in a fast-changing market. In this role, you will: Source, close and manage a portfolio of cybersecurity technology partners. Identify high-value use cases across security operations, identity, cloud security, application security, threat intelligence, governance, risk, and compliance. Develop partner plans covering integration, launch, enablement, co-marketing, co-sell, and growth. Support partnership structuring and coordinate product, technical, commercial, legal, and security workstreams. Help partners move from concept and technical validation to production launch and scaled customer adoption. Run regular partner reviews, track commitments, resolve blockers, and identify expansion opportunities. Coordinate closely with product, engineering, technical success, sales, marketing, legal, security, and operations. Measure partner pipeline, launches, model adoption, consumption, customer outcomes, and partner health. You might thrive in this role if you have: 8+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, alliances, partner success, or ecosystem roles. Experience in cybersecurity, enterprise software, cloud platforms, o

About the Team OpenAI’s Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling innovative and fundamental legal issues in AI. The team includes professionals from diverse legal fields—technology, AI, infrastructure, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation—who collaborate closely with colleagues across the company. If you are passionate about being a technology lawyer working on cutting-edge challenges, you’ll thrive here. About the Role We’re seeking a senior lawyer to participate in commercial legal strategy and execution across OpenAI’s fast-growing infrastructure portfolio. This is a cross-functional role that will partner closely with procurement, supply chain, partnerships, finance, and product teams to structure, negotiate, and manage the transactions that will support OpenAI’s long-term infrastructure ambitions. We’re looking for an experienced infrastructure transactions lawyer who thrives in ambiguity and wants to help define the commercial playbook for infrastructure efforts in the AI era. This role reports to the Associate General Counsel for infrastructure. 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 to new employees. In this role, you will: Own commercial legal strategy and risk management for OpenAI infrastructure transactions. Draft, negotiate, and advise on complex agreements with infrastructure suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and technology partners. Support strategic partnerships involving AI infrastructure and hardware supply chains. Develop frameworks for procurement, licensing, and collaboration across the infrastructure ecosystem. Partner with finance and operations teams to align contract terms with business and compliance requirements. Collaborate with policy and regulatory colleagues on issues impacting global supply chains, export controls, and manufacturing. Build scalable, efficient contracting process

About the Team The Product Policy team is responsible for the development, implementation, enforcement, and communication of the policies that govern use of OpenAI’s services, including ChatGPT, GPTs, the GPT Store, Codex, and the OpenAI API. About the Role We are looking for a Research and Advisory Partnerships Lead to build and manage the relationships, partnerships, and advisory structures that bring independent external expertise into our product and policy decisions. 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 to new employees. In this role, you will identify and engage researchers, civil society organizations, subject-matter experts, and other external stakeholders whose perspectives can strengthen how we develop and deploy AI. You will establish and manage advisory councils, develop research partnerships with the academic community, and work closely with internal teams to translate external insights into actionable guidance. This role sits at the intersection of product, policy, research, and governance. It is well suited to someone who is comfortable building relationships across disciplines and designing processes that ensure outside expertise meaningfully informs internal decision-making. This role can be based in San Francisco or New York City. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Develop, launch, and manage external advisory councils and other governance mechanisms that provide structured input on product and product policy. Build and maintain relationships with external experts, researchers, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders who can inform high-priority product and product policy decisions. Identify when external consultation can improve internal decision-making, and develop engagement strategies tailored to specific products, policy questions, and emer

About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building the world's most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. Through a combination of strategic partnerships and self-built campuses, we are scaling the compute, storage, and networking platforms that power frontier AI training and inference. The Scaling Analytics team builds the data and software systems that help Industrial Compute understand, plan, and operate infrastructure at global scale. We work across capacity, hardware, storage, infrastructure software, and operational systems to connect fragmented sources of infrastructure data and make that information reliable and usable for engineering and planning. As OpenAI's infrastructure footprint grows, CPU and storage data increasingly spans internal platforms, vendor systems, APIs, databases, object storage, capacity management systems, and operational tooling. Building reliable connections across these environments is critical to understanding available capacity, utilization, fleet state, and infrastructure growth. About the Role We are seeking a Data Engineer to build the data systems and integrations that connect OpenAI's CPU, storage, and supporting infrastructure platforms. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering and backend software engineering. Rather than focusing primarily on traditional analytical pipelines, you will build the software and integrations required to collect, normalize, and make infrastructure data available across a heterogeneous set of systems. CPU and storage data may originate from internal infrastructure platforms, vendor APIs, databases, object storage, capacity systems, and operational services. You will determine how to reliably connect these systems and where those integrations should live—whether within an existing infrastructure service, an orchestration framework, a scheduled workload, or a purpose-built application. You will work closely with Infrastructure Engineering, Capacity Engineering, Storage,

About the Team API Enterprise Controls is part of the API Infrastructure organization and owns the platform capabilities that help developers, startups, and enterprises adopt the OpenAI API securely and confidently. We build the systems underneath our APIs and developer platform across authentication and identity, service accounts and key management, secure networking, compliance, auditability, observability, and operational controls. Our users are developers and teams running critical applications on OpenAI, and we partner closely with Product, go-to-market, security, and infrastructure teams to turn their most important needs into reliable, intuitive platform capabilities. About the Role We are looking for an exceptional backend software engineer to help define and ship the enterprise capabilities our API Platform needs to scale.; this is a product-engineering role grounded in deep backend systems. You will work across databases, streaming systems, request routing, authentication, and developer-facing APIs while bringing strong product judgment, developer empathy, and attention to the small details that make a platform easier to understand, trust, and operate. You will lead large cross-functional initiatives, work closely with Product and go-to-market teams, engage directly with sophisticated users, and carry ambiguous needs from discovery through design, launch, and iteration. In this role, you will: Own backend product capabilities end to end across authentication and identity, service accounts and key controls, secure networking, compliance, observability, and operational workflows. Partner with Product, go-to-market, security, infrastructure teams, and sophisticated customers to identify needs, shape the roadmap, and lead large cross-functional projects from design through launch. Design developer-facing APIs, system behavior, configuration, error handling, safe defaults, auditing, and notifications with exceptional care for the details that define a great dev

About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture. About the Role Trusted Computing and Cryptography is a core security team at OpenAI focused on deploying high-performance cryptography at scale, secure key management, and trusted hardware enclaves—from boot measurements to GPU confidential computation. As a Hardware Platform Security Architect, you’ll own hardware platform security at OpenAI. In this role, you will: Co-Architect Secure Silicon: Collaborate with cross-functional silicon teams (Silicon Design, DV, FW) and silicon partners (silicon test facilities, foundries) to develop secure silicon that meets the end-to-end system requirements. Co-Architect Secure Hardware: Collaborate with hardware vendors and cross-functional teams (kernel, compiler, infra) to design secure hardware that meets performance and security needs. Co-Architect Secure Systems: Architect and deploy systems using TPM2, Secure Boot, Nitro Enclaves, Intel SGX, AMD-SEV, and other secure hardware technologies. Drive Innovation: Engage with internal and external partners to align hardware innovations with OpenAI’s trusted computing and cryptographic requirements. You might thrive in this role if you have: 10+ years of industry experience in hardware security or hardware–software co-design. Proven expertise in deploying secure hardware systems at scale and integrating secure hardware primitives. Strong coding skills in Rust and/or C/C++, with proficiency in Python. Proven ability to collaborate across teams, architect solutions,

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Strategic Sourcing & Procurement team enables OpenAI to scale responsibly, securely, and at speed by helping teams choose the right external partners, structure strong commercial agreements, and build resilient supplier ecosystems. We work at the intersection of innovation and execution, partnering closely with leaders across the company to turn rapidly evolving needs into scalable, compliant, and economically sound solutions. Professional services are a critical source of specialized expertise, capacity, and operational leverage across OpenAI. Our work spans consulting and advisory services, finance and accounting, legal, people and talent, managed services, and other enterprise capabilities. Done well, sourcing becomes a source of trust and momentum—helping teams move faster with the right partners, clearer outcomes, stronger economics, and appropriate safeguards. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Lead to own and execute OpenAI’s category strategy for Professional Services. This is an experienced individual-contributor role for a high-velocity, hands-on sourcing operator who can set category priorities, own complex work end to end, exercise sound judgment, influence senior stakeholders, and build scalable category mechanisms in a rapidly growing organization. You will turn incomplete information, shifting priorities, and unclear decision paths into practical next steps and disciplined execution. You will manage a broad portfolio of services engagements—from strategic advisory relationships and enterprise programs to high-volume statements of work. Partnering directly with leaders across Finance, Accounting, Legal, People, Extended Workforce, and business teams, you will set category priorities and translate needs into clear sourcing strategies, executable engagement models, and measurable outcomes. You will operate inde

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In support of that mission, the Ads Solutions team partners closely with advertisers, agencies, and strategic partners to help businesses unlock value through AI-powered advertising solutions while maintaining strong standards for user trust, platform integrity, and responsible innovation. As OpenAI’s advertising business scales, the Head of ScaledAds Sales will build the strategy and operating system for serving businesses at global scale. This leader will connect direct, reseller, and outsourced channels; turn market priorities into execution; and shape a repeatable growth model that protects advertiser outcomes and user trust. This role reports directly to the VP of Global Ads Solutions and will be a key member of their leadership team. About the Role We are seeking a Head of Scaled Ads Sales to define and scale OpenAI’s approach to serving advertisers at scale. You will set the scaled sales strategy across direct, reseller, and business-process-outsourcing (BPO) channels; identify priority markets; and translate that strategy into sequenced, measurable in-market execution. This is a highly strategic and operational leadership role responsible for scaled sales revenue growth and channel performance. You will design the reseller model, select priority vendors and markets, lead RFPs and contracting, and manage partners against clear commercial and customer-quality standards. You will also work closely with outsourced vendors in the BPO channel and test a focused mid-market sales team as a potential growth engine. The ideal candidate combines scaled go-to-market strategy, channel leadership, vendor-management discipline, experimentation, and operational rigor. You are equally comfortable building a business case, running an RFP, coaching internal and partner teams, reviewing funnel economics, and changing course quickly when market evidence challenges the plan

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their organization. The team comprises Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals who collaborate to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our Government Sales team has a unique mission to help the U.S. Intelligence Community understand the transformative impact that highly capable AI models can bring to its most critical missions. This role combines technical understanding, strategic vision, relationship management, and value-driven sales strategy tailored specifically to Intelligence Community customers. You’ll drive key opportunities throughout the full sales cycle, from pipeline generation through deployment and expansion. You’ll collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, solution strategists, and cross-functional partners to help Intelligence Community customers advance their missions through AI. This role is based in Washington, D.C. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In addition, this role requires frequent on-site engagement at customer and partner facilities across the Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia corridor, including classified environments. In this role, you will: Manage a focused set of key U.S. Intelligence Community accounts, developing and executing comprehensive account strategies. Lead Intelligence Community customers through their AI adoption journey, from initial consideration through successful deployment and expansion. Build trusted relationships with senior

About the Team Our Cyber team builds AI systems and products that help trusted defenders understand and respond to cyber threats while improving the safety and reliability of frontier models in security-sensitive settings. The team works across product engineering, model training, evaluations, safeguards, and deployment to make advanced cyber capabilities useful to defenders and responsibly managed. We collaborate closely with Safety/Preparedness, Research, Security, Legal, Communications, GTM, and external partners across OpenAI’s broader cyber work. About the Role We’re looking for research and software engineers to join Codex Cyber. You’ll help define and ship security products, work with trusted defenders and customers, shape model training and access patterns, and build research and evaluation systems for assessing cyber capabilities, validating safeguards, and improving training data. This role is hands-on and cross-functional, connecting product launches, model development, safety work, and real-world security use cases. In this role, you will: Help define and execute the technical roadmap for Codex Cyber’s security products, including evaluations, safeguards, trusted-defender workflows, and deployment decisions. Work with trusted defenders, customers, and partner teams to understand cyber use cases, evaluate risk, and turn feedback into product and research priorities. Shape cyber-specific model training and access patterns, including data, evaluations, validation, and deployment criteria. Build and validate systems for measuring cyber capabilities, monitoring misuse risk, and proving safeguards work in practice. Collaborate with Safety/Preparedness, Research, Security, Legal, Communications, Go-to-Market, and external partners on company-wide cyber priorities. Translate frontier cyber research into launch-ready tools, operational playbooks, and durable infrastructure for Codex and security products. You might thrive in this role if you: Enjoy 0 -> 1 envi

About the Team OpenAI’s Strategic Finance organization provides financial insights and guidance to support the company’s long-term strategy and ambitious growth. We work across Partnerships, GTM, Product, Compute, and Operations to allocate and deploy resources to the highest-impact opportunities while protecting sustainable unit economics. The B2B Strategic Finance team focuses on the financial performance of our B2B products and GTM functions, ensuring tight alignment between financial objectives and company strategy. We: Drive operational planning, financial forecasting, and performance management for our B2B business, Provide analytically-grounded insights on B2B product and financial performance to inform strategic resource allocation, Build the “0→1” financial foundations required to scale and accelerate growth. Within B2B, Partnerships are a critical lever to accelerate growth. You will help shape this business and drive successful outcomes from it. About the Role This Strategic Finance Partnerships hire will own our B2B Partnerships P&L and help drive strategic decision-making. You will be a critical finance partner to our Partnership teams, deal leads, Product owners, and Operations teams, responsible for pricing, structuring and driving success from partnerships, translating opportunities into decision- and exec-ready economics, and managing the overall Partnerships book of business. You will shape how OpenAI approaches Partnerships revenue targets, unit economics, investments, measurement, and prioritization. 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 to new employees. In this role, you will: Help manage the overall Partnerships business at a strategic priority, top-line impact, and resourcing / investment level. Own the financial evaluation of new B2B partnerships, modeling revenue, contribution margin, compute costs, cash flow, investment needs, and risk. Driv

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 The IT Services and Support team is responsible for delivering seamless, efficient, and reliable workplace technology across the organization. We provide frontline IT support, run employee lifecycle operations, support conference rooms and events, manage vendors and assets, and continuously improve systems, documentation, and workflows to strengthen the employee experience as OpenAI grows. About the Role As the EMEA Regional IT Support Lead based in Dublin, you will be the senior onsite IT owner for the Dublin office while serving as the regional lead for IT support across EMEA. You will combine high-quality hands-on support with regional coordination, operational leadership, and process improvement. Your scope includes frontline support, onboarding and offboarding, AV and event readiness, vendor and equipment management, office build and workplace technology support, executive support, and the design of scalable support workflows across offices and time zones. We are looking for someone who is customer-focused, technically strong, and able to operate independently in a fast-moving environment. You should bring strong judgment, clear communication, and the ability to turn ambiguous operational needs into reliable systems that improve the employee experience. This role is the onsite IT lead in our Dublin office, serves as the regional lead for EMEA IT support, requires 5 days in office per week, and offers relocation assistance to new employees. This role is based in our Dublin office. In this role, you will: Own EMEA IT Support: Take end-to-end ownership of the regional support experience, from prioritizing needs and resolving escalations to addressing systemic gaps and driving improvements. Lead EMEA Regional Support: Partner across offices and time zones to improve coordination, strengthen support coverage, and drive a more consistent employee experience across EMEA. Own Employee Lifecycle Operations: Lead or support onboarding and offboarding workf

About the Team OpenAI’s Infrastructure Operations team is responsible for the availability, reliability, and operational excellence of one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure networks. The team owns day-to-day operations of production AI networks across Industrial Compute's data centers, working with colocation providers, deployment teams, and hardware vendors to deliver highly available GPU infrastructure for AI training and inference workloads. About the Role We are seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer to operate and improve the large-scale Ethernet fabrics that support GPU clusters, storage systems, and management infrastructure. This role combines hands-on production operations with automation, observability, and incident response across a global AI network. The ideal candidate has experience operating high-availability data center, cloud, AI, or HPC networks and can move comfortably from physical-layer troubleshooting to routing and fabric behavior, change execution, and root-cause analysis. You will partner closely with network architecture, systems engineering, GPU engineering, storage engineering, security, deployment, site operations, service providers, colocation partners, and hardware vendors to raise reliability and reduce operational toil. Key Responsibilities Own the operational health, availability, and reliability of production AI network infrastructure across Industrial Compute's data centers. Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve network incidents while meeting service-level objectives (SLOs), reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD), and minimizing Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR). Operate and maintain large-scale Ethernet fabrics supporting GPU compute, storage, and management networks. Execute production network changes, maintenance windows, and capacity expansions with minimal customer impact. Manage the hardware lifecycle, including switch and optics replacements, RMA coordination, software upgrades, and preventive maintenance. Support new A