OpenAI

Technical Program Manager, AI Accelerator Software

OpenAI 📍 California, USA 🔀 Hybrid Posted Aug 17, 2026 via OpenAI careers
full-time 📂 Software Development 🔀 Hybrid 🏭 Technology

✨ Job Highlights

  • ★Pay: $302,000 to $445,000 a year
  • ★Hybrid: California
  • ★Full-time role in software development
  • ★Apply directly on OpenAI's careers site
  • ★Posted August 17, 2026

Full Job Description

Technical Program Manager, AI Accelerator Software job at OpenAI in California

This Technical Program Manager, AI Accelerator Software job is with OpenAI in California. It is a hybrid full-time role, so plan on splitting your week between home and the office. The advertised pay is $302,000 to $445,000 a year.

The description below comes from OpenAI's own job posting.

About the Team

OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform.

About the Role

As an AI Accelerator Systems Software Technical Program manager at OpenAI, you will help bring our chips/system hardware roadmap to life, navigating an array of technical and partnership challenges. We’re looking for people excited to push the frontiers of computing by navigating technical explorations and are passionate about building.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will

  • Manage the end-to-end software development from design to implementation for our AI acceleration systems, working across technical, cross-functional and external stakeholders

  • Lead planning and scheduling of AI system software designs with our strategic partners and vendors

  • Coordinate and lead internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.

  • You might thrive in this role if you

  • Have experience as a software technical program manager for data center system products (server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage and so on) taking products from concept to volume in a data center environment ensuring the systems scale with high quality

  • Know end-to-end software development program management techniques from concept, design, production, deployment into the data center

  • Want to help design some of the world’s largest supercomputing systems, working at the edge of complex hardware challenges

  • Enjoy working with and enabling world-class AI Researchers and Engineers

  • Are passionate about the technical program function, and enjoy independently owning and delivering on your teams’ goals and cutting-edge problems in AI compute

  • "To comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations."

    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.

    For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .

    Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

    To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.

    We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link .

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    At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

    Common questions

    How much does this Technical Program Manager, AI Accelerator Software job pay?

    OpenAI advertises $302,000 to $445,000 a year for this role.

    Is the Technical Program Manager, AI Accelerator Software position remote?

    It is hybrid. You would work partly from home and partly from the office in California.

    Where do I send my application to OpenAI?

    Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to OpenAI's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.

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    🏢 Company OpenAI
    📍 Location California, USA
    💼 Job Type full-time
    🌐 Work Mode 🔀 Hybrid
    🏭 Industry Technology
    🗓 Posted Date Aug 17, 2026
    🔗 Via OpenAI careers
    📅 Deadline Dec 15, 2034

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