Development Planner, Industrial Compute

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $225k - $385k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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OpenAI

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise

OpenAI is a leading research organization and company dedicated to creating advanced artificial intelligence technology, with a strong emphasis on safety and ethical considerations. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The company develops AI products like ChatGPT, which can assist users with tasks ranging from everyday requests to complex enterprise solutions. OpenAI also provides an API platform that integrates its AI models into various applications. The company is focused on innovation in AI and improving data analysis capabilities, while emphasizing safety and ethical governance of their systems.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain a multi-year portfolio plan for data center shell capacity across priority geographies • Translate compute forecasts, IT-load requirements, rack-density assumptions, power schedules, cooling requirements, and deployment timelines into site and building requirements • Determine when shell capacity must be secured, designed, constructed, commissioned, and ready for technical fit-out • Integrate land, utility, interconnection, permitting, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and network-readiness schedules into a single capacity view • Identify capacity gaps, schedule conflicts, stranded-capacity risks, and dependencies that could prevent infrastructure from becoming operational on time • Develop scenario models comparing self-build, lease, colocation, and strategic development-partner options • Evaluate delivery pathways based on schedule, cost, control, flexibility, reliability, scalability, and execution risk • Recommend campus, building, and utility phasing that preserves optionality while supporting near-term deployment requirements • Assess third-party proposals, facilities, schedules, technical specifications, and commercial structures against OpenAI’s requirements • Partner with capacity planning, energy, real estate, site development, design, construction, commissioning, networking, finance, legal, and commercial teams • Establish planning assumptions, readiness criteria, decision gates, and governance for moving opportunities into execution • Build dashboards and executive-ready materials communicating capacity supply, demand, timing, assumptions, dependencies, and material risks • Support investment, build-versus-partner, geographic-prioritization, and portfolio-allocation decisions • Create repeatable planning frameworks and playbooks for scaling shell-capacity decisions across regions and infrastructure generations

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in data center development, infrastructure planning, capacity planning, real estate development, construction planning, program controls, or a related field • Experience developing or managing portfolio-level plans across multiple data center sites, buildings, or infrastructure programs • Strong understanding of the data center development lifecycle, including site readiness, power delivery, design, permitting, construction, commissioning, and operational turnover • Ability to translate technical and demand requirements into facility-capacity, schedule, and phasing decisions • Strong quantitative and scenario-modeling skills, including ability to work with incomplete or changing assumptions • Experience evaluating competing delivery strategies and communicating cost, schedule, flexibility, and risk tradeoffs • Strong cross-functional program leadership and ability to create alignment across technical, commercial, and operational organizations • Excellent written communication and executive-presentation skills • Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where requirements, assumptions, and timelines may change quickly • Preferred: experience planning hyperscale data center campuses or infrastructure supporting high-density compute • Preferred: familiarity with powered-land development, utility and interconnection schedules, and campus-level power phasing • Preferred: experience evaluating self-build, build-to-suit, wholesale colocation, and third-party development models • Preferred: understanding of high-density electrical, mechanical, cooling, and network infrastructure requirements • Preferred: experience working with developers, capital partners, colocation providers, utilities, engineering firms, and construction organizations • Preferred: experience creating portfolio-planning systems, capacity dashboards, or executive decision frameworks for large infrastructure programs

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family • Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match • Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents • Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks • Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees • 13+ paid company holidays • Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year • Paid sick or safe time • Mental health and wellness support • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage • Annual learning and development stipend • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible • Relocation support for eligible employees • Charitable donation matching • Wellness stipends • Immigration and sponsorship support may be provided based on individual circumstances