Field Engineer
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labonsitesenior$225k–$318k
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