Recruiter, Data Center Infrastructure

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Scaling Recruiting team helps build the teams behind the data centers that train and run our models. We hire across the full data center lifecycle, from securing land and power to designing electrical and cooling systems, overseeing construction, commissioning facilities, and supporting site operations.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Recruiter to join our Data Center Infrastructure recruiting team. You’ll own searches from intake through offer and start, partnering closely with hiring managers, recruiters, and sourcers across sites and regions. Your portfolio will span specialized technical searches and recurring site-based hiring. You might open an electrical design search, build a local pipeline for construction managers, and close a commissioning lead ahead of a site handover.

In this role, you will:

• Build relationships with hiring managers before searches open to understand site milestones and anticipate hiring needs.

• Lead search intake, align on what each hire needs to deliver, and calibrate candidate profiles and interview criteria with the hiring team.

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies with sourcers and through direct outreach. Map local contractors and project owners for site-based roles and search across regions for specialized talent.

• Manage multiple searches across sites and reset priorities with hiring managers as build schedules shift. Coordinate interviewer coverage and keep candidates informed.

• Use pipeline data and candidate feedback to identify bottlenecks, test sourcing assumptions, and keep interviews and debriefs moving.

• Keep leaders informed about which hires and start dates are on track and where they need to make a decision.

• Own the candidate relationship from first outreach through start. Set clear expectations about the work and any site, travel, or relocation requirements.

• Lead closing conversations, bring in the right leaders to answer candidate questions, and coordinate offer approvals and start dates.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• Full-cycle recruiting experience for technical or operational teams, with a track record of supporting multiple hiring managers and balancing specialist searches with recurring hiring across sites.

• The ability to build trust with hiring managers who work differently, challenge assumptions with market evidence, and bring stakeholders to a decision when priorities compete.

• Experience building pipelines across multiple geographies and learning unfamiliar technical domains quickly enough to recognize relevant experience beyond job titles.

• Experience recruiting for data centers or adjacent environments such as energy, construction, advanced manufacturing, or field operations. Data center recruiting experience is a plus, not a requirement.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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