White Space Manager (AI Infrastructure)

Location: San Francisco, Seattle, or US remote; hybrid role with 50% travel and sustained time at active project sites

Salary: $226K–$285K base pay, plus equity, eligible bonuses, and benefits.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building products and infrastructure intended to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits humanity.

What you will do

• Own white-space planning and readiness from design development through rack installation, testing, activation, and operational handoff.
• Coordinate rack layouts, service clearances, containment, power distribution, cabling pathways, and cooling connections.
• Translate compute forecasts into space, power, cooling, network, labor, tooling, and material requirements.
• Develop installation sequences, readiness gates, turnover criteria, punch-list processes, escalation paths, and operating standards.
• Partner with design, construction, commissioning, networking, hardware operations, safety, logistics, and vendors to resolve constraints.
• Verify field conditions, maintain as-built and capacity records, and mitigate risks affecting safety, energization, cooling, networking, or schedule.

Requirements

• 8+ years delivering or operating data center white space, critical facilities, compute deployments, or mission-critical fit-outs.
• Strong understanding of racks, power distribution, structured cabling, airflow management, liquid cooling, controls interfaces, and deployment sequencing.
• Experience owning installation readiness, field coordination, quality, safety, and handoff across multiple technical disciplines.
• Ability to interpret construction documents, rack layouts, one-lines, mechanical diagrams, schedules, and commissioning records.
• Ability to manage competing dependencies and make sound decisions in active construction or production environments.
• Strong communication with engineers, contractors, vendors, deployment teams, and operations leaders.
• Willingness to travel regularly and spend sustained time at active project sites.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-density GPU or AI infrastructure and direct-to-chip liquid cooling.
• Experience with DCIM, asset-management, commissioning, or deployment-readiness systems.
• Background in data center construction, commissioning, hardware deployment, or facilities operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, operations, or a related technical field.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with US remote availability and approximately 50% travel.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, HSA and FSA contributions, and a 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, caregiver, sick, and safe leave; flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
• 13+ paid company holidays, coordinated office closures, mental health support, and employer-paid life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend, office meals, eligible meal delivery credits, and relocation support for eligible employees.
• The role is at-will; background checks apply in accordance with applicable law.