Land Development & Due Diligence Lead
- Location
- Remote (US)
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Listed
- 31 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- land development
- geotechnical review
- permitting and entitlements
- environmental assessment
Also useful
- ALTA surveys
- stormwater management
- air permitting
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 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 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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Equal opportunity and legal notices
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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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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.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link
From OpenAI's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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