Latest Hardware Engineering jobs at OpenAI

Senior physical design specialist supporting semiconductor customer engagements, AI-assisted chip-design solutions, and broader forward-deployed engineering delivery. Requires deep ASIC/SoC backend implementation expertise, tapeout experience, EDA fluency, and at least 7 years with a bachelor’s degree or 5 years with a master’s.

Designs, prototypes, validates, and integrates mechanical and electrical subsystems for next-generation AI consumer devices through mass production. The role requires 6+ years of consumer hardware experience and a track record of launching products at scale.

Designs and releases high-density, multilayer PCBs for next-generation robotic systems, coordinating with electrical, mechanical, signal-integrity, power-integrity, and manufacturing teams. Requires 6+ years of complex PCB design experience and strong Cadence Allegro expertise.

Leads system-level architecture and optimization of high-density AI data center infrastructure, integrating power, cooling, controls, telemetry, and computational modeling. Requires significant hyperscale or mission-critical infrastructure experience and a technical bachelor’s degree.

Tests and validates AI data center hardware across component, board, rack, and system levels, diagnosing electrical, thermal, power, and high-speed interconnect issues. Requires 10+ years of hardware testing experience, advanced test instrumentation expertise, and automation skills.

Leads day-to-day operations for a large-scale consumer device test lab, managing device fleets, test rigs, infrastructure, provisioning, maintenance, and logistics. The role partners with engineering and QA teams to maintain reliable environments for validation and release testing.

Leads manufacturing quality programs for datacenter infrastructure, overseeing vendors, audits, metrics, corrective actions, documentation, and delivery readiness. Requires 10+ years of quality or datacenter experience, an engineering-related bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, and substantial travel.

Develops and coordinates multidisciplinary BIM models for large-scale industrial and mission-critical facilities, supporting design validation, constructability, equipment planning, and stakeholder coordination. Requires 3+ years of BIM or design technology experience and proficiency with Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, or comparable platforms.

Designs, commissions, and operates the electrical infrastructure for robotic actuator dynamometers and test cells, including power systems, motor drives, instrumentation, DAQ, and safety circuits. The role requires hands-on experience with electromechanical test equipment, power electronics, measurement integrity, and electrical documentation.

Drives PCBA manufacturing strategy, process development, production readiness, and quality for next-generation AI hardware from prototype through high-volume production. The role requires deep PCBA experience and cross-functional execution with engineering teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.

Owns signal-integrity and power-integrity architecture, modeling, optimization, and validation for advanced AI ASIC packages. The role requires at least five years of high-speed interconnect and package electrical-design experience, plus expertise with electromagnetic and SI/PI simulation tools.

Own sustaining manufacturing engineering for high-volume PCBA production, resolving defects and improving yield, quality, testing, and manufacturability. The role requires a bachelor's degree and 5+ years of PCBA manufacturing experience, with expertise in SMT, process control, root cause analysis, and contract manufacturing.

Leads sourcing strategy, supplier negotiations, and commercial agreements for electrical systems supporting hyperscale AI data center infrastructure. Requires a bachelor's degree, 8+ years of strategic sourcing or infrastructure supply chain experience, and expertise with complex capital projects and suppliers.

Lead architecture, design, and integration of custom robotic actuators including motors, transmissions, sensing, and thermal systems for advanced robotics. Requires 7+ years designing electromechanical systems and strong hands-on prototyping and validation experience.

Leads electrical commissioning planning, readiness, energization, testing, quality coordination, and turnover for complex technical infrastructure projects. Requires 8+ years of relevant experience and strong knowledge of electrical distribution, backup power, controls, safety, and integrated testing.

Designs and leads development of custom gearing and actuator assemblies for advanced robotic systems, from architecture and prototyping through validation and production scaling. Requires a bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience in gears, robotic actuators, or precision mechatronic hardware.

Leads architecture, electromagnetic design, integration, and validation of custom robotic actuators from concept through production readiness. The role requires 5+ years of relevant hardware experience, strong electromechanical systems knowledge, and hands-on prototyping and testing.

Build software abstractions, infrastructure, and methodologies that accelerate development of complex custom AI silicon. The role partners across architecture, design, verification, performance modeling, and systems software and requires strong systems programming and digital design knowledge.

Owns planning, readiness, quality coordination, and test execution oversight for mechanical commissioning on complex technical infrastructure projects. Requires 8+ years of relevant experience and expertise in mechanical systems, controls interfaces, functional testing, and contractor/vendor coordination.

Build, scale, and operate OpenAI's global compute infrastructure for frontier AI models like GPT-5/6. Solve complex problems across software, hardware, distributed systems, manufacturing, supply chain, and data centers at unprecedented scale.

Own hardware platform security at OpenAI by co-architecting secure silicon, hardware, and systems using technologies like TPM2, Secure Boot, Intel SGX, and AMD-SEV. Requires 10+ years in hardware security or co-design, strong coding in Rust/C++/Python, and cross-team collaboration.

Lead thermal simulation for next-generation robotic systems. Perform modeling, analysis, and multiphysics simulations on actuators, mechanisms, electronics, and integrated assemblies to guide early design decisions, correlate with physical tests, and develop scalable simulation workflows.

Lead electrical and MEP design, operation, and maintenance for large-scale AI data center campuses at OpenAI. Requires 10+ years in critical infrastructure, deep expertise in power/cooling systems, vendor management, and a PE license.

Hands-on technician building, testing, and iterating on robotic hardware prototypes in a fast-paced lab environment. Requires strong electromechanical troubleshooting, fabrication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Senior RTL engineer owning microarchitecture and RTL implementation of scalable on-chip and off-chip interconnect fabrics for custom AI accelerators. Requires deep Verilog/SystemVerilog expertise and experience delivering complex SoC interconnects through tape-out.

Senior on-site hardware operations lead responsible for server, GPU, storage, and rack infrastructure reliability at OpenAI's AI campuses. Requires 8+ years of large-scale datacenter hardware experience and strong troubleshooting and cross-functional leadership skills.

Lead reliability engineering for advanced HPC packages in AI systems. Assess mechanical/thermal risks, develop test plans, perform modeling, and drive design optimizations with cross-functional teams.

Lead safety strategy and risk management for robotics products, partnering with engineering, legal, and policy teams to integrate safety into architecture and meet regulatory standards.

Owns manufacturing test strategy and execution for complex AI hardware systems, spanning board, tray, and system-level testing from development through production ramp. Requires 5+ years of hardware test experience, strong debugging and data-analysis skills, and collaboration with manufacturers and suppliers.

Electrical Engineer owning full hardware lifecycle for next-gen robotic systems, from concept and PCB design through bring-up, validation, and deployment in compact electromechanical platforms.

Senior electrical engineer designs and optimizes power systems for high-density AI data centers, evaluates vendors and technologies, leads testing and commissioning, and ensures reliability for liquid-cooled GPU deployments. Requires 10+ years experience in mission-critical facilities and bachelor's in electrical engineering.

Leads PCB, PCBA, cabling, and assembly manufacturing from hardware concept through production, coordinating engineering, operations, TPMs, suppliers, and manufacturing partners. The role requires substantial experience with NPI processes, quality controls, high-speed signal testing, supplier execution, and manufacturing data analysis.

Lead signal integrity design for AI supercomputers in data centers, collaborating on chip-to-system interconnects and performing simulations to resolve issues. Requires 10+ years experience in SI, SerDes, PCB, and data center hardware.

Builds and optimizes low-level stack including APIs, runtimes, compilers, and kernels for orchestrating computation across OpenAI's AI supercomputing clusters. Requires systems programming expertise in Rust/Python/C++ and experience in compilers, distributed systems, or high-performance simulation.

Develops automation and monitoring tools to ensure reliability and uptime of OpenAI's large-scale compute fleet, including server provisioning, health monitoring, and performance optimization. Requires strong Linux, networking, and programming skills in Python or Go, with experience in large-scale server environments.