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Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer

San Francisco (Remote)$257k–$327kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

OpenAI seeks a senior electrical engineer to design and optimize power systems for high-density, liquid-cooled AI data centers. You'll lead electrical architecture decisions across design, validation, construction, and operations while partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, scalable infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Design and optimize electrical topologies, equipment strategies, and distribution architectures for cost, efficiency, and reliability
  • Develop basis-of-design documents, single-line diagrams, specifications, and power system studies including load flow and protection coordination
  • Evaluate AC/DC power distribution options, rectifier architectures, and rack power delivery systems for high-density compute
  • Lead vendor and equipment evaluations, review submittals, and oversee FAT/SAT and integrated systems testing
  • Partner with mechanical, cooling, controls, and operations teams to support liquid-cooled GPU deployments
  • Analyze operational incidents, power quality events, and failures to improve designs and reliability models

What they're looking for

  • Medium-voltage and low-voltage electrical distribution
  • Power systems design and studies (load flow, short circuit, protection coordination)
  • Backup power, UPS, battery, and generator systems
  • Switchgear, transformers, and electrical protection systems
  • Vendor evaluation and technical review
  • Factory acceptance testing (FAT) and site acceptance testing (SAT)
  • Data center electrical infrastructure
  • Controls and telemetry systems
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OpenAI

OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.

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