Data Center Controls Network Engineer

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 257,000 - 327,000 annuallyFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Experience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving"]

Mid to senior OT Network Engineer responsible for designing, validating, and scaling controls and OT network architectures for high-density AI data centers. You’ll translate compute, power, cooling, and operational requirements into practical OT designs, evaluate vendor solutions, and drive decisions across controls infrastructure, telemetry, and commissioning in a cross-functional environment.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
3 months ago

Data Center Controls Network Engineer

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Job Summary

Mid to senior OT Network Engineer responsible for designing, validating, and scaling controls and OT network architectures for high-density AI data centers. You’ll translate compute, power, cooling, and operational requirements into practical OT designs, evaluate vendor solutions, and drive decisions across controls infrastructure, telemetry, and commissioning in a cross-functional environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define controls, automation, and OT network requirements for AI data center campuses.
  • •Develop reference architectures, engineering standards, and reusable design templates.
  • •Review and develop basis-of-design and functional design documents, including OT network diagrams, IP/VLAN schemes, telemetry architectures, data flow diagrams, and commissioning requirements.
  • •Design OT and infrastructure network architectures, including physical topology, logical topology, IP addressing, subnetting, VLANs, routing, switching, redundancy, segmentation, firewall policy coordination, out-of-band management, monitoring, and remote access patterns.
  • •Develop day-two network operations requirements, including change management, configuration backups, golden configurations, monitoring thresholds, firmware lifecycle, rollback plans, and post-change validation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 257,000 - 327,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of relevant experience in controls engineering, industrial automation, OT networking, mission-critical facilities, or similar critical infrastructure environments.
  • •Strong expertise in resilient OT network architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, and lifecycle support.
  • •Hands-on experience with Layer 3 OT network design, including IP addressing, subnetting, routing, VRFs, ACLs, inter-VLAN traffic control, and network segmentation.
  • •Hands-on experience with Layer 2 security and switching controls, including MACsec, port security, loop prevention, and switch-level access control.
  • •Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience:8+ yearsData centerIndustrial automationOT networkingMission-critical facilities
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:CiscoJuniperPalo AltoRockwell Automation StratixSiemens RuggedcomBACnet/IPBACnet MSTPModbus TCP/RTUOPC UAIEC-61850 MMS/GOOSEMQTTSNMPNTP/PTPIRIG-BVMwareAzure Stack HCIHyper-VIP addressingSubnettingRouting

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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