Head of Measurement & Performance Intelligence

ABOUT THE TEAM The Industrial Compute team is responsible for building and operating the infrastructure platform that powers OpenAI’s research and products. The team works across hardware systems, platform architecture, performance engineering, and capacity strategy to ensure OpenAI can efficiently scale training and inference workloads on next-generation compute infrastructure. ABOUT THE ROLE As the Head of Measurement & Performance Intelligence, you will build the function responsible for evaluating and improving the performance of OpenAI’s compute platforms. You will define how workloads are measured across new and existing systems, establish the metrics and acceptance criteria used during platform bring-up and production validation, and translate performance data into actionable guidance for architecture decisions, platform quality, capacity allocation, and vendor engagement. You will partner closely with Industrial Compute, model-serving, training, infrastructure, and external platform teams to ensure OpenAI’s systems are continuously optimized against real workload behavior at scale. We’re looking for people who combine deep systems intuition with strong operational and cross... Click Apply to read the full job description.