Compute Strategy And Transactions in United States

About the Team The Compute Strategy team works across research, engineering, product, finance, legal, and go-to-market teams to develop the partnerships, infrastructure capacity, and commercial models needed to advance AI infrastructure. About the Role As a member of the Compute Strategy team, you will develop commercial strategies for AI infrastructure partnerships and offerings. You’ll translate technical infrastructure opportunities into partnerships, transactions, and revenue. We’re looking for a commercially minded strategist who combines knowledge of semiconductors and AI infrastructure with strong financial judgment and the ability to execute complex partnerships. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Develop strategies for compute partnerships, vendor access, and infrastructure capacity. Structure and execute transactions with chipmakers, compute providers, and other infrastructure partners. Develop pricing frameworks and business cases for infrastructure-related partnerships. Evaluate partner technologies, strategic fit, commercial terms, and execution risks. Coordinate work across research, engineering, product, finance, legal, and go-to-market teams. Turn partnership learnings into repeatable operating models that can scale. You might thrive in this role if you: Have experience in strategy, corporate development, partnerships, or infrastructure transactions. Understand semiconductors and AI infrastructure. Can evaluate complex technical and commercial opportunities. Bring strong financial, analytical, and strategic judgment. Can influence and align technical and business stakeholders. Have negotiated or executed complex partnerships. Are comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence ben

About the Team OpenAI’s Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling novel and consequential legal issues in AI. The commercial infrastructure legal team supports the systems and facilities that make advanced AI possible, including compute, first-party silicon, colocation, and first-party data center development. About the Role We’re seeking a senior commercial infrastructure lawyer to lead legal work across our rapidly growing data center development and colocation portfolio. You will advise on complex, high-value transactions involving new data center sites, power, construction, colocation, and related infrastructure arrangements. This role is designed for a lawyer who understands how data centers are developed and operated—not a general real estate practitioner. You will work closely with infrastructure, finance, procurement, and operations teams, while coordinating outside counsel where appropriate, to help projects move quickly and responsibly. San Francisco is preferred, and occasional travel may be required. In this role, you will: Lead commercial legal strategy and risk management for data center development and colocation transactions. Draft, negotiate, and advise on colocation agreements, construction agreements, power-related arrangements, and other contracts supporting data center development. Support first-party projects involving raw land, site and power rights, design and construction, EPC models, third-party build-to-suit structures, and leasebacks. Partner cross-functionally with infrastructure, finance, procurement, operations, and other stakeholders on fast-moving, complex projects. Manage and collaborate effectively with outside counsel across a high volume of infrastructure matters. Develop scalable legal playbooks and contracting approaches for a growing portfolio of data center sites. You might thrive in this role if you have: 12+ years of legal experience, primarily in commercial legal roles. Deep, hands-on experience

About the Team Industrial Compute is building the infrastructure ecosystem that enables OpenAI to train and deploy increasingly capable AI systems at unprecedented scale. The organization operates across compute supply, demand, infrastructure, partnerships, and the physical and commercial systems required to make large-scale compute available. Industrial Compute Strategy & Operations serves as the connective operating layer across this ecosystem. The team works directly with senior leadership across Scaling, Finance, Partnerships, Research, and Infrastructure to translate ambiguous, high-impact challenges into clear strategies, scalable operating mechanisms, and decisive execution. This team is responsible for ensuring that OpenAI’s compute strategy evolves into durable competitive advantage by identifying systemic constraints, aligning stakeholders around critical decisions, and driving the operating mechanisms required to execute at scale. About the Role We are seeking a highly experienced Strategic Operations leader to help shape and operationalize OpenAI’s compute strategy across supply, demand, infrastructure, partnerships, and commercial strategy. This is a senior individual contributor role operating at the intersection of strategy, operations, infrastructure, and executive decision-making. You will work closely with compute leadership to identify the most consequential problems facing the organization, develop structured approaches to solving them, align stakeholders across the company, and drive initiatives from ambiguous concepts through execution. The role will span both strategic and operational work. You may develop long-range compute strategies and investment frameworks, evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, shape major commercial transactions, establish organizational planning mechanisms, or take ownership of a cross-functional initiative that does not have a clear organizational home. Success in this role requires exceptional judgment, analytical

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About the Role As Senior Manager, Technical Accounting, Compute Infrastructure, you will lead the evaluation, documentation, and operationalization of complex accounting matters related to OpenAI's compute infrastructure, strategic investments, and other non-routine business activities.. This role sits at the intersection of U.S. GAAP technical accounting, infrastructure strategy, financial reporting, controls, and cross-functional execution. Key areas may include cloud compute arrangements, data center and colocation arrangements, lease accounting under ASC 842, power purchase agreements, strategic investments, consolidation evaluations under ASC 810, financial instruments, and other emerging or non-standard arrangements. 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: Lead technical accounting analysis for complex, judgmental, and non-routine transactions under U.S. GAAP. Evaluate accounting implications for compute infrastructure arrangements, including cloud compute, data center, colocation, lease, PPA, infrastructure procurement, and related commercial arrangements. Partner with Controllership, Tax, Legal, FP&A, Procurement, Infrastructure, and other cross-functional teams to assess the accounting implications of new products, commercial arrangements, strategic transactions, and business initiatives. Prepare and review technical accounting memoranda, position papers, and other auditor-ready documentation. Translate

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About the Role As Senior Manager, Technical Accounting, Compute Infrastructure, you will lead the evaluation, documentation, and operationalization of complex accounting matters related to OpenAI's compute infrastructure, strategic investments, and other non-routine business activities.. This role sits at the intersection of U.S. GAAP technical accounting, infrastructure strategy, financial reporting, controls, and cross-functional execution. Key areas may include cloud compute arrangements, data center and colocation arrangements, lease accounting under ASC 842, power purchase agreements, strategic investments, consolidation evaluations under ASC 810, financial instruments, and other emerging or non-standard arrangements. This role is based in San Francisco, CA or remote. 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: Lead technical accounting analysis for complex, judgmental, and non-routine transactions under U.S. GAAP. Evaluate accounting implications for compute infrastructure arrangements, including cloud compute, data center, colocation, lease, PPA, infrastructure procurement, and related commercial arrangements. Partner with Controllership, Tax, Legal, FP&A, Procurement, Infrastructure, and other cross-functional teams to assess the accounting implications of new products, commercial arrangements, strategic transactions, and business initiatives. Prepare and review technical accounting memoranda, position papers, and other auditor-ready documentation.

About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the role Sentry provides developer-first observability to over 4 million developers worldwide. The Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team is at the heart of that mission: it powers how all of Sentry's event data, such as errors, transactions, spans, profiles, replays, and metrics, is stored, queried, and analyzed. It also powers Sentry's latest AI push, Seer. The EAP team makes it possible for developers to efficiently search and debug across massive volumes of data, providing the context needed to understand and fix issues quickly. This team is also a cornerstone of Sentry's long-term strategy to become a context assembly and telemetry platform that unifies different signals so developers can see the complete picture. As an engineering manager on the EAP team, you will lead a group of engineers building and scaling one of Sentry's most critical data platforms. You will be responsible for driving architectural evolution, ensuring system stability, and mentoring a talented team. This is a highly visible leadership role with direct ties to Sentry's long-term product and platform strategy. What you'll do Grow and develop a team of engineers with high expectations for ownership and impact Set the technical and strategic direction for the team, balancing short-term stability with long-term architectural evolution Drive development of core EAP features, including support for complex analytical queries, dynamic routing logic across fidelity levels, storage and compute separation, and modern patterns for analytical storage Ensure EAP can support the workload demands of AI agents and MCP servers that unlock new AI capabilities fo

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are looking for a Manager, Real Estate to lead the financial, contractual, and operational stewardship of Snowflake's global real estate portfolio, while pioneering an AI-first approach to how real estate is managed at scale. AS A MANAGER, REAL ESTATE AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Direct a $100M+ annual lease spend with a focus on Total Cost of Ownership and rigorous ROI analysis, ensuring workplace investments yield measurable, defensible value Build an AI-led real estate management strategy of the future: evaluate traditional real estate administration practices and use Snowflake's own AI and compute capabilities to explore, trial, and develop in-house features built on Snowflake Cortex that streamline lease administration, automate manual processes, and extrapolate portfolio data into insights that inform decision making Collaborate directly with cross-functional partners (Finance, Accounting, Legal, Procurement, Workplace Operations) and outside brokers to ensure all leases are in good standing and to coordinate new leasing activity Serve as the main liaison between Snowflake and landlords, brokers, internal legal counsel, and technical advisors, maintaining alignment and clarity through lease negotiations, transactions, and ongoing real estate utilization and maintenance

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’s Tax and Trade team sits at the center of OpenAI’s global growth, shaping how cutting-edge AI products, partnerships, and infrastructure scale across borders while navigating complex tax, trade, and regulatory regimes. We operate as strategic operators, not just compliance experts, embedding early in product, finance, policy, and infrastructure decisions to manage risk, unlock incentives, and enable OpenAI to grow responsibly and competitively worldwide. About the Role We’re hiring a Tax Director to help shape some of OpenAI’s most important business, product, infrastructure, and financing initiatives. This role will sit at the intersection of tax, finance, technology, and commercial strategy, advising on the investments, products, partnerships, and operating decisions that enable OpenAI to scale. You will serve as a senior tax business partner to Finance, Legal, Infrastructure, Treasury, Accounting, Product, and commercial teams. Your work will span compute and infrastructure investments, structured financings, commercial contracting, product strategy, new business models, and international expansion. This is a broad, highly commercial role for someone who enjoys solving new problems and influencing business decisions. The ideal candidate combines strong tax judgment with financial acumen, intellectual curiosity, and an understanding of transaction economics, contractual risk allocation, and business operations. You will engage early in strategic initiatives, help teams evaluate possibilities, and develop practical structures that support OpenAI’s growth. 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: Serve as a senior tax business partner across OpenAI, advising on strategic business decisions, product development, commercial models, infrastructure investments, financing initiatives, and international growth. Serve as the lead tax a

About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. The Role: We're hiring a Compute Strategy and Operations lead to own how Modal plans for and acquires GPU and CPU capacity. You'll size our infrastructure needs ahead of demand, source supply across hyperscalers, neoclouds, and datacenter operators, and negotiate and close the contracts to secure it. The compute you secure directly determines what Modal can sell and build. In this role, you will: Own end-to-end procurement of GPU and CPU capacity across hyperscalers, neoclouds, and datacenter operators Build and maintain a strong pipeline of supplier relationships Evaluate supply options on price, availability, hardware specs, networking capabilities, and SLA terms Negotiate and close contracts: reserved capacity agreements, spot arrangements, MSAs, DPAs, and order forms Work closely with our engineering teams to translate technical requirements into procurement specs Track

About the Team OpenAI’s Compute Strategy team is responsible for securing and scaling the core resources that power our research and products. We partner across engineering, finance, legal, and operations to identify, negotiate, and execute strategic partnerships that expand OpenAI’s capacity for compute, power, and data center infrastructure. Our mandate spans energy procurement, real estate development, colocation, cloud service providers, silicon and strategic supply chain, and infrastructure financing—ensuring OpenAI can grow with speed, resilience, and cost-efficiency. About the Role We are hiring several Business Development Lead, Compute Strategy positions focused on compute infrastructure. Each hire will bring deep expertise in one or more focus areas while collaborating across the broader infrastructure stack. In this role, you will source opportunities, structure partnerships, and negotiate high-value agreements across OpenAI’s infrastructure ecosystem. You will work directly with external partners and suppliers while collaborating internally with engineering, legal, finance, and operations to ensure we have the resources needed to support state-of-the-art AI systems. This role requires technical fluency, commercial judgment, and disciplined execution. Your work will directly shape how quickly, reliably, and efficiently OpenAI can bring new compute capacity online. Each hire will focus on building partnerships and executing deals in one or more of the following areas: Energy and Power: securing scalable and sustainable energy supply. Land and Real Estate: identifying and securing strategic sites. Colocation : evaluating and contracting for third-party data center capacity. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs): structuring partnerships with hyperscalers and specialized AI cloud providers. Silicon: building semiconductor partnerships to secure advanced silicon and resilient long-term supply. Fiber & Equipment: securing fiber & critical data center equipmen

The Compute & Infrastructure Strategy team handles strategy and execution of OpenAI’s compute roadmap. This team’s key responsibilities span financial analysis & reporting, capacity planning, commercial and business development, and strategic partnerships. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes. About the Role Compute is central to OpenAI’s roadmap and vision. We are seeking an Associate to support financial and strategic work across our compute and infrastructure portfolio. This is a finance generalist role that includes core FP&A responsibilities as well as investment analysis, commercial decision support, and strategic planning. You will own analyses and workstreams, partner closely with technical and finance teams, and help shape decisions about how OpenAI invests in and manages compute. In this role, you will be given direction on the objective and expected to independently structure the problem, work through incomplete information, and deliver a high-quality analysis and recommendation. In this role, you will: Build and maintain financial models across different elements of compute, including GPUs, CPUs, storage, networking, data centers, and power Support planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and variance analysis across compute and infrastructure Perform investment analysis and evaluate commercial decisions and strategic initiatives Prepare high-quality analyses, recommendations, and Exec and Board-facing presentations Support business partners across compute infrastructure, FP&A, and strategic finance Help improve the team’s processes, tools, and ways of working, and identify opportunities for OpenAI to continue leading in compute You might thrive in this role if you have: 3+ years of experience across private/growth equity, investment banking, or strategic finance, or 3+ years in a finance operating role at a high-growth technology company Background in infrastructure, data

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI compute infrastructure ecosystem. The InfraDev team is central to this mission, setting the strategy and executing the roadmap to scale our supercomputing footprint globally. From site planning to system integration, this team operates at the intersection of commercial, technical, and operational excellence, partnering with leaders across OpenAI and the industry. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager who is ready to take on global-scale challenges in AI compute supply and manufacturing — an opportunity to shape the future of supercomputing. As part of the Infrastructure Strategy & Delivery organization supporting Industrial Compute, OpenAI’s next-generation supercomputing platform, you will lead sourcing and strategic supplier engagements for compute infrastructure at hyperscale. This role will drive commercial strategy and supplier accountability across server platforms, accelerators, rack systems, and associated thermal & power delivery components. This is not traditional procurement — it is foundational work enabling OpenAI to deploy compute faster and more efficiently than anyone in the world, while building deeply-integrated partnerships with the global compute supply chain. Key Responsibilities Develop and execute sourcing strategies for the next generation of AI compute infrastructure in partnership with engineering and program leadership. Stay at the leading edge of industry and supply-chain trends to inform category strategy and long-range planning. Initiate, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements across OEM/ODM/JDMs for accelerators, GPUs/CPUs, server platforms, rack systems, liquid-cooling components, PSUs, and supporting mechanical/electrical subsystems. Secure capacity and optionality across a rapidly scaling compute supply chain while mitigating risk and ensuring manufacturing readiness. Partner cross-funct

Staff -Power and Performance Validation Engineer About us Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone. Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. Job Summary Reporting to senior leadership within Architecture and Validation, the Power and Performance Validation Lead will drive validation strategy and execution for advanced AI compute silicon and systems. The role is responsible for leading power, thermal and performance validation activities across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments to ensure products meet efficiency, reliability and scalability expectations. This role requires strong technical expertise and collaboration across multiple engineering disciplines to deliver robust validation methodologies, scalable automation frameworks and actionable performance insights. The Team The Power and Performance Validation team sits within the Architecture and Validation organisation and is responsible for validating the performance, efficiency and thermal behaviour of Graphcore silicon and systems. The team supports the full product lifecycle, from early architectural modelling through to first silicon bring-up, characterization and production readiness. Engineers work closely with cross-functional teams globally to debu

About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building the world's most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. In partnership with leading cloud providers, hardware manufacturers, utilities, construction partners, and internal engineering organizations, we are delivering hyperscale AI campuses that power the next generation of frontier AI models. Infrastructure Delivery Operations sits at the center of this effort. Our team develops the operating model that connects infrastructure strategy, supply planning, manufacturing operations, and delivery into a single, integrated system that enables OpenAI to deploy AI infrastructure predictably at scale. We partner across Hardware Engineering, Network Engineering, Capacity Delivery, Hardware Operations, Security, Finance, Strategic Sourcing, and external infrastructure partners to create a single, integrated view of program health. Through governance, operational analytics, executive reporting, and scalable operating mechanisms, we enable leaders to proactively manage risk, optimize capacity, and deliver infrastructure predictably at Industrial Compute speed. About the Role We are seeking a Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Delivery Operations to drive integrated strategy and delivery across OpenAI's rapidly expanding AI infrastructure portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure strategy, New Product Introduction (NPI), supply planning, manufacturing operations, and infrastructure delivery. You will lead highly cross-functional programs spanning engineering, supply planning, manufacturing, logistics, construction, commissioning, and operations, ensuring technical and operational dependencies remain synchronized from planning through production readiness. Beyond driving program execution, you will leverage operational insights to improve capacity planning, infrastructure strategy, and deployment readiness. You will also help operationalize new technologies and suppliers by partnering w