# Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer at Openai

- Company: Openai (openai.com)
- Location: San Francisco (remote)
- Places: San Francisco, Remote, United States
- Posted: 2026-04-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/e602cd50-002d-4ace-bb30-19db0afcf635
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/data-center-infrastructure-electrical-engineer-openai-kn76t0wmygnbgsz4hmvhckdc1h8han8m

## The posting

Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer
Openai · San Francisco

**About the Team**

OpenAI is building the infrastructure foundation for the next generation of AI. The Data Center Engineering team defines the strategy, reference architectures, technical requirements, and delivery standards for the large-scale data centers that support OpenAI research, products, and infrastructure partners.

As a Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer, you will help define, validate, and scale the electrical power systems that support high-density AI compute. You will translate evolving compute requirements into practical facility and rack-power architectures, evaluate new technologies and vendor solutions, and drive technical decisions across design, manufacturing validation, construction, commissioning, deployment, and operations.

This role is best suited for a senior hands-on engineer with deep experience in mission-critical power systems, strong judgment under ambiguity, and the ability to connect facility infrastructure, hardware requirements, controls, telemetry, reliability, and operations.

**About the Role**

We are seeking a senior electrical infrastructure engineer to lead the development of reliable, scalable, and efficient power architectures for high-density, liquid-cooled AI data centers.

The ideal candidate has strong practical experience with critical electrical systems at data centers or comparable industrial scale, including medium-voltage and low-voltage distribution, utility interfaces, backup power, UPS and battery systems, rack power delivery, grounding, protection, controls, and monitoring systems.

You should be comfortable moving between long-range architecture, detailed engineering review, lab validation, vendor qualification, field deployment, and operational troubleshooting.

**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.
- Drive FAT, SAT, witness testing, burn-in, reliability testing, interoperability testing, and integrated systems testing for critical infrastructure and rack deployments.
- Help guide and operate an R&D program to validate new equipment, rack designs, telemetry, operating envelopes, failure scenarios, and facility-to-hardware interactions.
- Define telemetry and controls requirements including metering, waveform capture, breaker and relay status, UPS and battery health, generator status, rack power, CDU status, coolant conditions