# Development Lead at OpenAI

- Company: OpenAI
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: US - Remote · Remote
- Level: Lead
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $225K–385K
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Skills: development, infrastructure
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/987c4eb8-819e-4258-a91c-f34ecfbcd5f1

## Description

About the Team

OpenAI is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Site Readiness & Development team owns the upstream diligence and development work required to convert powered-land opportunities into executable infrastructure options.

About the Role

The Development Lead owns the development path after a site clears initial screening. This role validates the viable power pathway, turns site constraints into a building-level deployment plan that makes clear when each building can deploy, and runs the phase-by-phase action list that closes the decisions, dependencies, and evidence gaps needed to make a site controllable and executable.

Key Responsibilities

 - Own the stage-gate path from exclusivity and commercial terms through desktop diligence, confirmatory diligence, site closing, and handoff into design, construction, and operations.

 - Validate power pathways with Power and utility partners, including service options, interconnection and delivery sequencing, readiness assumptions, schedule exposure, cost implications, and decision points.

 - Turn each development phase into a disciplined action list with owners, deadlines, closure criteria, open evidence, and escalation paths; drive the list to closure rather than simply reporting status.

 - Translate power, land, civil, environmental, access, entitlement, and permitting constraints into a building-level deployment plan with clear sequencing and target deployment timing for each building.

 - Coordinate site access, exclusivity, LOI, commercial terms, financing assumptions, and closing 

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