Clean Energy and New Technology Lead

OpenAI is seeking a Clean Energy and New Technology Lead to drive clean energy strategy and execution for infrastructure growth, ensuring alignment with sustainability goals. 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.

• •Evaluate emerging energy solutions such as clean firm power, advanced storage, grid flexibility, low-carbon backup power, heat reuse, water-related energy efficiency, and other scalable technologies where relevant.
• •Identify pilot opportunities and deployment pathways that can move promising energy technologies from concept to commercially and operationally credible execution.
• •Translate technical options into clear reliability, cost, schedule, carbon, regulatory, and operational implications for infrastructure decision-making.
• •Partner with energy regulatory, policy, procurement, engineering, deployment, finance, legal, and site-readiness teams to align technology and sustainability choices with project needs.
• •Coordinate with OpenAI’s central sustainability function as it develops to ensure infrastructure-specific goals, metrics, reporting, and commitments remain consistent.
• •Track external market, policy, utility, and technology developments that could affect OpenAI’s ability to scale resilient, low-carbon infrastructure.
• •Build repeatable evaluation frameworks, partner criteria, and execution playbooks for sustainability and emerging energy technology initiatives.