Technical Program Manager, Applied Infrastructure

About this role

Technical Program Manager, Applied Infrastructure

OpenAI|other jobs

San FranciscoOn-siteFull-timeManager$257k – $445k/yr3 weeks ago

About the role

Technical Program Manager – Applied Infrastructure

About the Team

The Applied team safely brings OpenAI’s technology to the world, powering products like ChatGPT, and the APIs for GPT and more. Behind these products is a complex and rapidly evolving infrastructure platform that enables scale, performance, and safety. The Applied Infrastructure TPM team partners across engineering to lead foundational programs that ensure OpenAI’s infrastructure can meet current and future demand.

About the Role We’re looking for a seasoned Technical Program Manager to drive critical infrastructure programs across the Applied organization. This TPM will focus on cross-cutting initiatives such as general compute capacity planning, process transformation, cost and quota attribution and optimization, and coordination across infrastructure and product stakeholders. There will also be focus on evolving OpenAI’s infrastructure to support growth, scale and new products. This work is core to how OpenAI manages and grows its infrastructure footprint in a disciplined, scalable way.

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid – 3 days/week in-office)

In this role, you will:

• Serve as the DRI for complex infrastructure programs spanning CPU planning, orchestration, and other resource management domains (e.g. networking, storage).
• Build and operationalize systems to capture demand signals, model future capacity needs, and align infrastructure planning across internal teams and partners external to the company.
• Partner closely with Infrastructure, Product and Finance teams to forecast infrastructure usage patterns and ensure supply/demand alignment.
• Lead cost attribution and quota enforcement programs to promote stability and ensure equitable access to resources across teams.
• Drive simplification and standardization of infrastructure tooling and processes across Applied and Infra organizations.
• Drive cross functional programs to evolve our infrastructure to support new growth and scale
• Work with external vendors and partners (e.g., cloud providers) to manage delivery schedules, capacity projections, and cost growth.
• Communicate project risks, progress, and key decisions clearly to technical and executive stakeholders.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 7+ years of experience leading large-scale, technical infrastructure programs, especially in compute resource planning, system scalability, or platform engineering.
• Understand how cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and foundational infra components (compute, storage, networking) come together to power complex products.
• Have worked with hyperscalers or cloud providers (e.g. Azure) to manage infrastructure delivery and planning cycles.
• Are structured and detail-oriented, with the ability to untangle complex dependencies and drive clarity across ambiguous problem spaces.
• Excel at building durable processes, driving alignment across teams, and communicating clearly across technical and business audiences.
• Can navigate complex and ambiguous problems at the intersection of infrastructure and business

Source: Ashby