Infrastructure Policy & Partnerships Specialist

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe achieving this goal requires thoughtful engagement with public policy stakeholders, key industrial leaders, and the broader community affected by AI. Our Global Affairs team builds trusted, collaborative relationships with public officials and the broader policymaking ecosystem to inform and support the responsible development and deployment of AI technologies. We also develop partnerships with a range of external parties to increase access to the computing power needed to make AI accessible to as many people as possible.

Our infrastructure-related efforts are increasingly vital to this work. We are building out our capacity to engage deeply in these areas and seeking someone with appropriate skills and experience to help us develop OpenAI’s infrastructure public policies and partnerships. This work involves consideration of complex financial incentives, export policy, global trade arrangements, infrastructure security considerations and a variety of other factors that affect the availability and cost of AI compute around the world. This work will directly support OpenAI’s Stargate and OpenAI for Countries initiatives.

As the Infrastructure Policy and Partnerships Specialist on OpenAI’s Global Affairs team, you will support OpenAI’s infrastructure goals by developing policy proposals, collaborating with third party industry and advocacy organizations, and communicating with regulators and U.S. and foreign government officials.

Internal collaboration is as essential to this role as external engagement. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between policy strategy, GTM, finance, security, technical deployment, and OpenAI’s values. This role will include project management work, internal coordination and organizational collaboration, and thought leadership.

Flexibility, adaptability, and a willingness to shift rapidly to a range of unanticipated tasks is essential to this role.

• Are deeply knowledgeable about AI infrastructure and the ways in which politics, policy and regulations affect the competition to build AI infrastructure at speed.

• Are an effective cross-functional collaborator, capable of translating technical infrastructure needs into clear and actionable policy strategies and campaigns.
  

• Are excited by the opportunity to help build frameworks for responsible infrastructure growth.
  

• Are a strong communicator who can engage diverse audiences—from engineers to government officials to civil society groups.
  

• Enjoy synthesizing information from a variety of sources, analyzing policy data, and communicating through written, verbal and visual presentations
  

• 8+ years of experience in technology related government affairs with specific experience working on semiconductor/chips/data center, supply chain resiliency, and/or AI infrastructure more broadly.

• Infrastructure regulatory experience such as technical training and experience participating in Data Center negotiations on agreements with community groups and policy organizations like the Data Center Alliance

• Semiconductor experience and expertise on the impact of public policies, incentives, trade agreements on the availability and cost of AI compute and global supply chains,.
  

• Prior experience working across teams (e.g., infrastructure, legal, communications, GTM, finance, partnerships) to develop coordinated strategies.
  

Good humor and flexibility, exceptional judgment, integrity, and the ability to represent OpenAI in professional forums.

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. 

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