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xAI's Michael Roberson joins OpenAI infrastructure team as commissioning program manager
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The former lead commissioning engineer at xAI (now SpaceXAI) Michael Roberson has joined OpenAI's infrastructure division.
Key facts
- Also joining this past month is Bryan Carroll, previously of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, but a Valaris employee until 2020
- Several Meta employees have also joined the generative AI giant, including Nikhil Kumar, who spent the past eight years as a mechanical engineer
- Roberson has also held roles at the Tennessee Valley Authority, Southern Nuclear, and SyncroFlo
- He joins alongside several SpaceXAI staff, including site lead Aakash Verma, data center infrastructure staffer Amin Golnabi, project manager Andrej Sulek, and construction project manager Johnathan
Summary
Michael Roberson spent a year at Elon Musk's data center business, where he said he was in charge of end-to-end infrastructure commissioning for Colossus, Macrohard, and Macroharder data centers. Roberson has also held roles at the Tennessee Valley Authority, Southern Nuclear, and SyncroFlo. "I’ll be helping bring data centers from construction through testing and into operations, ensuring the critical systems are ready to support the next generation of AI," Roberson said on LinkedIn. He joins alongside several SpaceXAI staff, including site lead Aakash Verma, data center infrastructure staffer Amin Golnabi, project manager Andrej Sulek, and construction project manager Johnathan Henley.