OpenAI
Data Center Design Manager
US - Remote · Contract
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About the role
- Coordinate civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and physical network interfaces across data center buildings and campuses.
Responsibilities
- Manage design scope, deliverables, milestones, and dependencies from concept development through detailed design and construction support.
- Translate owner and hardware requirements into coordinated design criteria, working with discipline leads to resolve gaps and competing requirements.
- Lead multidisciplinary design reviews
- track comments, decisions, technical risks, and actions through resolution before design release.
- Evaluate design changes with engineering and delivery partners, making impacts on reliability, safety, cost, schedule, and maintainability clear.
- Coordinate external architects, engineering consultants, developers, and equipment suppliers to maintain design quality and meet agreed deliverables.
- Partner with construction and commissioning teams on constructability, sequencing, RFIs, submittals, field issues, and design changes.
- Maintain design documentation and handoff requirements, and incorporate field and operational lessons into reusable standards and reference designs.
- Lead multidisciplinary design reviews; track comments, decisions, technical risks, and actions through resolution before design release.
- You will bring engineering disciplines and external design partners together to translate infrastructure requirements into coordinated, buildable design packages.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to read technical drawings and specifications, identify interface gaps, and work with discipline experts to resolve them.
- Experience with hyperscale data centers, high-density AI or HPC infrastructure, or other rapidly evolving mission-critical environments.
- Experience with modular or prefabricated infrastructure and design approaches that improve constructability and deployment speed.
- Experience supporting commissioning readiness, as-built documentation, and handoff to operations.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary design for data centers, mission-critical facilities, or comparable complex infrastructure.
- Technical understanding of data center infrastructure and the interfaces among power, cooling, controls, structures, and physical networks.
- Experience taking coordinated design packages from early planning through detailed design and construction support.
- Experience coordinating external design consultants, engineering specialists, and construction partners.
- Strong written and verbal communication, disciplined issue tracking, and sound judgment when balancing technical requirements with delivery constraints.
- Familiarity with liquid cooling, high-density power distribution, and the integration of changing compute hardware requirements into facility designs.
- Experience managing design reviews, quality checks, and technical change control across concurrent projects.
- Familiarity with BIM, model coordination, clash detection, and engineering document-control tools.
Nice to have
- Preferred Skills
Company info
- OpenAI's Compute organization builds and operates the infrastructure that powers frontier AI training and inference.
- Our data center engineering teams develop the technical standards and infrastructure required to deploy compute at unprecedented scale across both self-built and partner-operated environments.
- We work across civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, construction, and infrastructure delivery to develop data center designs that are reliable, scalable, and optimized for speed.
- We are seeking a Data Center Design Manager to coordinate the design and delivery of infrastructure for large-scale AI deployments.
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