openai - Data Center Design Manager

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. • Experience managing multidisciplinary design for data centers, mission-critical facilities, or comparable complex infrastructure. • Technical understanding of data center infrastructure and the interfaces among power, cooling, controls, structures, and physical networks. • Experience taking coordinated design packages from early planning through detailed design and construction support. • Experience coordinating external design consultants, engineering specialists, and construction partners. • Ability to read technical drawings and specifications, identify interface gaps, and work with discipline experts to resolve them. • Strong written and verbal communication, disciplined issue tracking, and sound judgment when balancing technical requirements with delivery constraints. • Experience with hyperscale data centers, high-density AI or HPC infrastructure, or other rapidly evolving mission-critical environments. • Familiarity with liquid cooling, high-density power distribution, and the integration of changing compute hardware requirements into facility designs. • Experience managing design reviews, quality checks, and technical change control across concurrent projects. • Experience with modular or prefabricated infrastructure and design approaches that improve constructability and deployment speed. • Familiarity with BIM, model coordination, clash detection, and engineering document-control tools. • Experience supporting commissioning readiness, as-built documentation, and handoff to operations. • Experience adapting reference designs and engineering standards to site-specific constraints across a portfolio. • Professional engineering or architecture licensure, or relevant design and project management credentials.