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Fire Protection Engineer leading fire and life-safety engineering for OpenAI’s AI data center campuses. Reviewing systems, managing code compliance, commissioning, and operational readiness.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain fire protection and life-safety design criteria, technical standards, and review requirements for self-build data center campuses
- Review fire protection drawings, specifications, code analyses, fire and life-safety narratives, hydraulic calculations, equipment submittals, and sequences of operation across project phases
- Provide owner-side engineering direction for fire detection and alarm, automatic suppression, fire pumps and water storage, smoke control, emergency communication, and related life-safety systems
- Integrate fire protection requirements with architectural, structural, electrical, mechanical, controls, security, hardware, and operational systems
- Partner with code officials, authorities having jurisdiction, insurers, consultants, contractors, and equipment vendors to resolve code interpretations and approval risks
- Support constructability reviews, RFIs, submittals, field inspections, deficiency resolution, and change management during construction
- Define commissioning, integrated-system testing, acceptance, turnover, and operational-readiness criteria
- Assess fire and life-safety risks involving high-density compute, battery and energy-storage systems, generators, fuel systems, utility infrastructure, cooling systems, hazardous materials, and construction activities
- Support incident response, root-cause reviews, corrective actions, and lessons learned
- Maintain records of design decisions, code positions, approvals, testing results, open risks, and turnover requirements
- Travel regularly to project sites for design reviews, field execution, testing, commissioning, and operational readiness
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Fire Protection Engineering or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience delivering fire and life-safety systems
- 8+ years of fire protection engineering experience supporting data centers, industrial facilities, advanced manufacturing, energy infrastructure, or other mission-critical environments
- Strong knowledge of applicable building and fire codes and standards, including IBC, IFC, NFPA requirements, and local authority approval processes
- Technical depth in fire alarm and detection, water-based suppression, special-hazard suppression, fire pumps and water supply, smoke control, egress, and integrated life-safety systems
- Experience reviewing fire protection designs, specifications, hydraulic calculations, equipment submittals, testing procedures, and commissioning results
- Ability to work with authorities having jurisdiction, engineering consultants, contractors, insurers, vendors, and internal stakeholders
- Experience resolving field issues and design changes while maintaining code compliance, safety, quality, schedule, and documentation
- Strong written and verbal communication and sound engineering judgment
- Professional Engineer licensure in Fire Protection Engineering, or ability to obtain licensure in relevant jurisdictions
- Preferred: experience with hyperscale data centers, high-density compute environments, or global multi-site infrastructure programs
- Preferred: experience with battery rooms, energy-storage systems, generator plants, fuel systems, high-voltage substations, or campus utility infrastructure
- Preferred: familiarity with performance-based design, fire and smoke modeling, quantitative risk assessment, or fire-hazard analysis
- Preferred: experience leading integrated testing and coordinating fire alarm, suppression, controls, security, mechanical, and electrical interfaces
- Preferred: experience developing reusable standards, design templates, commissioning requirements, and incident-prevention programs across multiple sites
Benefits:
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
- Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expense accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave: up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave: up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays
- Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided
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