Manufacturing Test Engineer

In This Role, You Will

• Define and drive the manufacturing test strategy for boards, trays, and system-level hardware assemblies across EVT, DVT, PVT, and production ramp.
• Develop and manage test coverage for ICT/structural test, FCT/board-level functional test, tray-level functional and integration test, and system-level manufacturing and bring-up test.
• Partner closely with electrical engineering, system engineering, and diagnostic/software teams to define test requirements, review manufacturing test scripts and diagnostics, validate failure isolation needs, debug hooks, logging, and production screening strategies.
• Translate engineering requirements into practical, scalable manufacturing test plans that balance coverage matrices; review and approve EVT/DVT/PVT and production test plans, pass/fail criteria and release gates while balancing coverage, test time, debug efficiency, cost, and production throughput.
• Collaborate with system integrators, JDMs, contract manufacturers, and equipment vendors to implement and qualify test stations, fixtures, automation, software, equipment configurations, calibration plans, operator procedures, golden-unit correlation and production workflows.
• Review and analyze manufacturing test results, test logs, diagnostic outputs, yield trends, failure paretos, false-failure rates, and station correlation data to identify gaps and drive corrective actions.
• Lead or support debug of manufacturing test failures, working cross-functionally to determine whether issues stem from design, process, fixture, software, component, or operator variation.
• Drive continuous improvement of test processes, including coverage expansion, cycle-time reduction, parallelization opportunities, power & cooling efficiency optimization, station reliability, data quality, and test escape prevention.
• Ensure manufacturing test readiness for new product introduction, including test specifications, validation plans, GR&R/correlation studies, station acceptance, and production release criteria.
• Help establish scalable standards and best practices for manufacturing test development across OpenAI’s rapidly growing hardware portfolio.

You Might Thrive in This Role If You

• Have experience developing and deploying manufacturing test solutions for complex electronics, servers, networking systems, or high-performance compute hardware.
• Understand board-level and system-level test methodologies, including ICT, boundary scan, functional test, burn-in, stress test, and production diagnostics.
• Are comfortable working across both engineering development and factory execution, and can bridge the gap between design intent and production implementation.
• Have strong hands-on debugging skills and can use test data, BMC/Host logs, diagnostic logs, power & thermal telemetry, schematics, and lab measurements to identify root causes efficiently and drive corrective action.
• Communicate clearly with internal teams and external partners, especially when aligning on requirements, debugging ambiguous issues, and driving closure under schedule pressure.
• Enjoy operating in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment with significant ambiguity and high expectations for execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing test engineering, product test, NPI test development, or related hardware test roles.
• Experience with one or more of the following on servers and/or AI Accelerators: ICT or structural board test, board-level functional test development, tray/chassis/system-level manufacturing test, production diagnostics and debug workflows, test fixture/rack/station development.
• Experience working with contract manufacturers, JDMs, system integrators, or test equipment vendors to deploy and sustain production test solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience reviewing test data, yield, failure trends, and manufacturing metrics.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with hardware engineering, diagnostics/software, manufacturing, quality, and supplier teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with server and AI accelerators plus networking, power, or data center hardware systems.
• Experience reviewing or developing manufacturing test automation, Python/Bash or similar scripts, Linux-based diagnostics, data pipelines, CI/release controls, and test software frameworks used in factory environments.
• Experience supporting high-volume production ramps and factory bring-up in Asia or other global manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of DFT principles and how design decisions influence testability, debug, and production yield.
• Experience with failure analysis, root-cause investigations, and corrective action processes in a manufacturing environment.