OpenAI
Land Development & Due Diligence Lead at OpenAI
$199,000–$327,000 / year
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- Company
- OpenAI
- Location
- Remote, United States
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Compensation
- $199,000–$327,000 / year
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OpenAI is hiring a full-time, remote Land Development & Due Diligence Lead in the United States, with annual compensation of $199,000–$327,000. The role is part of the Site Readiness & Development team, which evaluates powered-land opportunities and advances them toward executable infrastructure options.
You will assess whether proposed sites are buildable, compliant, and cost-effective. The work spans civil, geotechnical, environmental, and entitlement diligence, including identifying site risks and developing ways to address them. You will also oversee permitting plans and schedules, manage outside consultants, and provide recommendations on whether to proceed with a site.
The role includes creating reusable templates and playbooks for future site reviews, reporting readiness, risks, and milestones to executive stakeholders, and tracking indicators of the site-selection program’s effectiveness and external vendor and partner contributions. Applicant background checks are conducted in accordance with applicable law; reasonable accommodations are available to applicants with disabilities.
Role at a glance: OpenAI seeks a remote, full-time Land Development & Due Diligence Lead to assess site readiness and guide land diligence, permitting, and risk recommendations.
Responsibilities mentioned in the listing
- Lead technical diligence covering geotechnical conditions, soils, title and ALTA surveys, mineral rights, and site access.
- Oversee permitting and entitlement plans, including schedule coordination with agencies.
- Assess generator air permits and wetlands, floodplain, and stormwater constraints.
- Manage consultants conducting feasibility studies and environmental assessments.
- Recommend whether to proceed with sites, presenting risks and mitigation options.
- Develop templates and playbooks to support consistent future site reviews.
- Keep executive stakeholders informed about site readiness, risks, and milestones.
Qualifications stated in the listing
- At least 8 years of experience in land development, civil or environmental engineering, or data center diligence.
- Knowledge of permitting, entitlements, and engagement with authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs).
- Strong project management and technical review capabilities.
- Experience managing consultants and interpreting complex studies.
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About the Team
OpenAI is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Site Readiness & Development team owns the upstream diligence and development work required to convert powered-land opportunities into executable infrastructure options.
About the Role
Responsible for validating that proposed sites are buildable, compliant, and cost-effective. You will lead diligence across civil, geotechnical, environmental, and entitlement dimensions, identifying risks and driving mitigation strategies.
Key Responsibilities
Lead all technical diligence: geotech, soils, title/ALTA surveys, mineral rights, and access.
Oversee permitting/entitlement path and schedule governance with agencies.
Evaluate generator air permits, wetlands, floodplain, and stormwater constraints.
Manage consultants performing feasibility studies and environmental assessments.
Deliver go/no-go recommendations with risk and mitigation options.
Build diligence templates and playbooks to scale future site reviews.
Qualifications
8+ years in land development, civil/environmental engineering, or data center diligence.
Knowledge of permitting, entitlements, and AHJ engagement.
Strong project management and technical review skills.
Experience managing consultants and interpreting complex studies.
Regularly communicate site readiness updates, risks, and milestones to executive stakeholders.
Establish and track key performance indicators to assess the effectiveness of the site selection program and the contributions of external vendors and partners.
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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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.
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