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Tech Lead, Deployment & Operations — Custom Infrastructure

About the TeamOpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native si

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-05-16T00:33:32.83+00:00

OpenAI is hiring a Technical Lead to run deployment and operations for its Silicon & Systems team, part of the Hardware organization that builds AI-native silicon and integrated systems for frontier-model workloads. The role owns the path from hardware bring-up and validation to production data center deployment, fleet monitoring and reliability, plus the processes, tooling and readiness criteria behind them. It asks for 8+ years in hardware systems, infrastructure, data center deployment or silicon bring-up, and experience leading senior engineers while staying hands-on. Based in San Francisco, hybrid; $342K–$445K.