Data Center Hardware Quality & Reliability Engineer

Highlights

• Own end-to-end hardware quality loop for OpenAI 3P and next-gen 1P platforms.
• Turn field failures into risk quantification, containment, and recurrence prevention.
• Run cross-functional reliability council and shape fleet-wide quality strategy.

What they offer

• Equity

Ideal candidate

A data-driven hardware reliability leader who thrives turning field failures into prevention at data-center scale. You care about quantified risk, fleet health, and influencing design through closed-loop quality.

Requirements

• BS in electrical, mechanical, computer, materials, reliability engineering, physics or equivalent; MS preferred
• 8+ years in hardware quality/reliability, server/rack systems or mission-critical infrastructure
• 3+ years owning field-failure, RMA or CAPA outcomes
• Working understanding of board, tray, rack, firmware, telemetry, manufacturing test and fleet behavior
• Reliability statistics: censored life data, Weibull/Poisson/binomial, confidence bounds, MTBF/MTTR, reliability growth
• Hands-on FMEA/FTA, accelerated testing, 8D/CAPA, failure analysis and corrective-action verification
• Proficiency with SQL and Python/R or equivalent analytics tools
• Ability to influence design, validation, operations, suppliers/CMs and senior leaders without direct authority