Product Cost Management Lead - AI Infrastructure

Job summary

Responsibilities

OpenAI is seeking a Product Cost Management Lead to own the official costed bill of materials (BOM), system and cluster cost and price baseline, and platform-to-platform total cost of ownership (TCO) for our 1P AI infrastructure.

• Own the official costed BOM and system/pod roll-up by platform, generation, configuration, build phase, volume, and mix.
• Publish and maintain the system/pod cost and price baseline, reconciling component pricing and manufacturing-partner inputs with approved configurations and planning assumptions.
• Build platform-to-platform TCO comparisons covering component content, non-recurring engineering, tooling, manufacturing labor and overhead, yield, scrap, test, logistics…
• Partner with housing and site teams to integrate their cost inputs into product economics, documenting scope, timing, allocation assumptions, and gaps so platform comparisons are…
• Quantify the cost impact of engineering change orders and notices (ECOs/ECNs), architecture, specification, configuration, and qualification changes before approval.

What they're looking for

• Significant experience in hardware product costing, cost engineering, supply chain finance, manufacturing cost analysis, or a related role supporting complex technology products.
• Experience building and maintaining multi-level costed BOMs, system cost roll-ups, and lifecycle or TCO models across product development, production ramp, and sustaining…
• Strong understanding of hardware cost drivers, including component pricing, manufacturing labor and overhead, NRE, tooling, yield, scrap, test, logistics, and service costs.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate engineering changes, second-source options, and cost-reduction opportunities using comparable scenarios and transparent assumptions.
• Advanced spreadsheet and quantitative modeling skills, with disciplined data reconciliation, version control, and source traceability.