The opportunity
OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is building and operating the infrastructure required to support frontier AI at unprecedented scale. The organization works across data center development, power, design and construction, hardware, supply chain, deployment, facilities operations, and external partnerships.
What you'll do
Develop and maintain a comprehensive sustainability strategy for OpenAI’s global compute infrastructure.
Translate sustainability objectives into actionable requirements for site: selection, design, construction, procurement, commissioning, and operations.
Establish decision frameworks that balance environmental impact with: infrastructure reliability, deployment speed, cost, and scalability.
Develop strategies addressing operational and embodied carbon, water: stewardship, materials, construction impacts, waste, circularity, and equipment lifecycle management.
Partner with data center engineering and operations teams to identify: practical improvements in infrastructure efficiency, resource use, resilience, and operational performance.
Incorporate sustainability considerations into self-build, colocation, cloud,: and strategic infrastructure-partner decisions.
What they're looking for
- Establish measurable goals, operating metrics, dashboards, and governance: mechanisms for infrastructure sustainability programs.
- Improve the quality, consistency, and auditability of environmental and: operational data across internal teams and external partners.
- Work with hardware, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to develop supplier: requirements and lifecycle strategies for infrastructure equipment.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, design approaches, and operating practices: and determine which should move from pilot programs into scaled deployment.
