The opportunity
OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world's most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Industrial Compute organization develops and delivers the large-scale power, data center, and compute infrastructure required to support frontier AI systems.
What you'll do
Develop power-generation concepts, reference architectures, design criteria,: and site-specific requirements based on campus demand, phasing, reliability targets, grid availability, fuel strategy, site constraints, and operating objectives.
Evaluate generation technologies and system configurations, including gas: turbines, reciprocating engines, fuel cells, battery energy storage, microgrids, black-start systems, and hybrid grid-connected solutions.
Define and review plant electrical and mechanical balance-of-plant: requirements, protection and controls philosophy, grid-paralleling and islanding behavior, redundancy, maintainability, and operational modes.
Translate AI infrastructure load profiles and deployment schedules into: generation capacity plans, equipment sizing, ramp strategies, performance requirements, and commissioning criteria.
Lead technical diligence of OEM, EPC, developer, and supplier proposals;: review calculations, one-line diagrams, layouts, specifications, studies, schedules, and design assumptions to identify gaps and material risks.
Coordinate interfaces across utility interconnection, substations, campus: electrical distribution, cooling systems, controls, fuel supply, emissions, water, civil design, permitting, construction, and operations.
What they're looking for
- Evaluate tradeoffs across availability, efficiency, emissions, cost,: schedule, constructibility, scalability, maintainability, and long-term operating flexibility, and document clear technical recommendations.
- Support equipment selection, procurement, design reviews, factory and site: acceptance testing, construction issue resolution, commissioning, performance testing, and operational handoff.
- Investigate design or field-performance issues, drive corrective actions with: partners, and incorporate lessons learned into engineering standards, specifications, and future reference designs.
- + years of engineering experience in power generation or industrial power: systems, including responsibility for generation facility design or integration.
