Hardware Engineer, Test
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremotesenior$177k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Develop AI-native silicon and systems powering next-gen frontier models.
- Validate supercomputing hardware for current and future data centers.
- Co-design chips, systems and tools for faster, efficient AI computing.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A hands-on hardware tester with 10+ years in data centers who thrives in ambiguity, acts with urgency, and loves collaborative debugging, learning, and sharing knowledge to harden AI supercomputing systems.
Requirements
- 10+ years testing or supporting hardware design for datacenter applications
- Hands-on hardware testing and validation with oscilloscopes, power supplies, analyzers
- Strong understanding of electrical, power and thermal testing methodologies
- Expertise with SPI, I2C, USB, DDRx and Datacenter Ethernet compliance
- Experience with high-speed electrical and thermal test equipment including VNA, TDR
- Experience with Cadence Allegro and automation/scripting in Python and Bash
- Knowledge of system testing from xPUs and board to rack and data center level
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
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