Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 257,000 - 327,000 annuallyFunction: Hardware, Embedded & Systems EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration"]

Senior electrical infrastructure engineer responsible for designing, validating, and scaling power architectures for high-density, liquid-cooled AI data centers. You will lead hardware-aware electrical design decisions, collaborate across mechanical, controls, and operations teams, and drive testing and qualification of equipment to ensure reliable, scalable facility power systems.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
3 months ago

Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior electrical infrastructure engineer responsible for designing, validating, and scaling power architectures for high-density, liquid-cooled AI data centers. You will lead hardware-aware electrical design decisions, collaborate across mechanical, controls, and operations teams, and drive testing and qualification of equipment to ensure reliable, scalable facility power systems.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Hardware, Embedded & Systems Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and optimize electrical topologies and equipment strategies that reduce cost, accelerate schedules, improve efficiency, increase scalability, and maintain high reliability and maintainability.
  • •Review and develop basis-of-design documents, single-line diagrams, equipment specifications, commissioning plans, and power system studies including load flow, short circuit, protection coordination, arc flash, and grid transient compliance.
  • •Lead technical evaluation of equipment vendors, manufacturers, design consultants, commissioning agents, contractors, and test labs. Review submittals, schematics, certifications, quality records, and test reports.
  • •Evaluate AC and DC power distribution options for high-density compute, including rectifier architectures, busway, rack power shelves, power supplies, cable management, redundancy strategies, serviceability, and fault isolation.
  • •Partner with mechanical, cooling, controls, hardware, networking, construction, and operations teams to ensure electrical systems support liquid-cooled GPU rack deployments and reliable facility operation.

Pay and Benefits

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

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of electrical engineering experience in mission-critical facilities such as data centers or comparable critical infrastructure.
  • •Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, power systems, or a related discipline.
  • •Strong hands-on experience with MV/LV distribution, transformers, switchgear, switchboards, generators, UPS systems, batteries, PDUs, RPPs, busway, PSUs, grounding, bonding, and protection systems.
  • •Experience producing and reviewing electrical designs, studies, equipment specifications, commissioning plans, test procedures, and acceptance criteria.
  • •Experience leading FWTs, FATs, SATs, integrated systems testing, failure-mode testing, and root-cause investigations.
Experience:Data centerAI infrastructure
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:MV distributionLV distributionUPSPDUsBuswayGeneratorsGroundingProtectionControlsMonitoring systems

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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