Lead Infrastructure Software Engineer in United States

About the Team The Capital Markets team develops the financing strategy, solutions, and partnerships needed to support our expanding global AI infrastructure platform and long-term investment plans. About the Role We’re looking for a senior structured finance leader to create immediate execution leverage for a growing capital markets function. In this role, you’ll take broad financing objectives, such as raising a large pool of capital from a defined set of counterparties, and independently turn them into well-run transaction processes. You’ll lead complex financings from strategy through close, manage counterparties and advisors, and bring sound judgment to capital structure, risk allocation, process design, and execution. This is a hands-on role for someone who is still close to the details, not a purely senior relationship manager. Your work will allow the team lead to spend less time in day-to-day execution and more time building the broader capital markets organization. In this role, you will: Lead large, complex financing processes from initial structuring through diligence, negotiation, documentation, and closing. Translate broad capital-raising objectives into executable financing plans, timelines, work streams, and counterparty strategies. Manage lenders, investors, advisors, counsel, and internal stakeholders across high-stakes transactions. Provide oversight on financial structuring, modeling, diligence, risk allocation, and transaction documentation. Make clear recommendations on financing strategy, counterparty selection, process design, and tradeoffs. Operate effectively in a small, high-impact team without relying on a large analyst or associate bench. Help build repeatable internal processes for a financing function that is still scaling. Coach and develop more junior transaction professionals. You might thrive in this role if you have: 8-15 years of experience executing structured finance, project finance, infrastructure finance, digital infrastruct

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

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 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

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE Our Sales and Solutions teams navigate hard technical conversations spanning inference performance, GPU economics, latency budgets, deployment shape. As Baseten’s platform matures, we need a dedicated owner to translate launch velocity into field readiness. As our first Product Enablement Lead, you'll sit between Product, Marketing, and Sales GTM and own how Baseten's products, features, campaigns, and market moments like the launch of GLM-5.2 or Kimi K3 or the sudden evolution of Tokenomics as a discipline get translated into field execution. You will own how these launches land with the field, how AEs and SAs stay credible on a highly dynamic technical ecosystem, and how what the field hears from customers makes it back to Product. This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You are the bridge between product, marketing, and sales. You'll build the system and run it, which includes cross-functional program leadership, direct training and enablement of in-seat reps, and content and curriculum development for managers, sellers, and new hires. Success here will depend on your ability to build repeatable systems and rhythms and to partner across the business and with your enablement colleagues to ensure alignment and speed of execution. RESPONSIBILITIES Own launch readiness: partner with Product and Marketing on positioning, write internal launch comms, and run readiness sessions so AEs and SAs can sell new pr

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. ABOUT THE TEAM Supply is responsible for knowing everything happening in the compute market: who's building, who's buying, and on what terms. This role owns a specific and fast-moving slice of that map — emerging clouds and international markets — and owns the full relationship lifecycle in that space, from first outreach through to closed terms. RESPONSIBILITIES Build and maintain a real-time picture of the emerging cloud and international compute landscape — who's active, what they're building, and what terms are available Own the full partnership lifecycle in this space — from identifying and sourcing new providers, to negotiating terms, to ongoing relationship management Develop and manage relationships across a broad set of emerging and international providers, from account reps up through leadership Identify, structure, and help close opportunities where Baseten can move quickly to secure favorable capacity terms Define compelling value propositions tailored to different types of providers, rather than a one-size-fits-all pitch Partner closely with others in the team already covering this space to build out a durable, well-organized intelligence and relationship function Collaborate with the broader Supply and Deals functions to bring opportunities to the table and support negotiation when it's time to close WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR Equal parts relationship-builder and operator — you can open a door and also drive it