OpenAIHead of Data Center Delivery
About the Team
The Industrial Compute team at OpenAI is responsible for all things compute capacity, from our partnership deals (i.e. stargate) through the delivery and operations of this capacity. The team is a fast-paced, dynamic team working on the cutting edge of capacity at scale, speed, quality, and cost, while enabling the best AI Frontier models and beyond.
About the Role
This role is responsible for ensuring the on time and quality delivery of the compute capacity that continues to unlock the best frontier AI models in the world. The role will work across multiple delivery suppliers and various delivery models to ensure OpenAI has the right capacity, at the right time.
You’ll be responsible for:
Direct accountability to capacity delivery as it ties to contract and business demands.
Relationship management with each of our core delivery partners
Executive communications on delivery status, challenges, and mitigations.
Partnership within the industrial compute domain, from our deals team through to sustaining operation of the capacity.
The role will manage a team of industrial leaders focused on capacity delivery through our partnerships.
We’re looking for someone with:
Hyperscale data center experience or equivalent
A deep understanding of delivery models, experiences and risk management.
Strong executive presence
Excellent managerial and leadership skills
Ability to have significant influence on delivery outcomes with limited direct ownership of contracted models.
A good to strong understanding of the underlying architecture (e.g. Cerebras, AMD, TPUs, Nvidia platforms (current and next-gen), Trainium, etc) would be a great benefit.
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 deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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