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Field Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labonsitesenior$225k–$318k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own day-to-day health of live robotic workcells supporting data operations.
  • Blend high-level AI with physical systems to unlock general-purpose robotics.
  • Bring up prototype robots and scale them into reliable fleet operations.

What they offer

  • Relocation assistance
  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Hands-on engineer with 5+ years supporting robots or automation in live environments. Practical, calm under pressure, and motivated by making real systems work reliably at scale.

Requirements

  • 5+ years supporting electromechanical, robotic, automation or human-in-the-loop systems
  • Independently troubleshoot messy real-world failures under time pressure
  • Comfortable across mechanical, electrical, controls and software boundaries
  • Strong habits around tickets, documentation and shift-to-shift communication
  • Communicate clearly with operators, technicians and engineers
  • Hands-on with physical systems and running complex issues to ground
  • Bachelor's in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Computer Engineering or related field
remote policy
On-site 5 days per week

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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