# Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Data Center Equipment

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: Remote, US
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $165K - $290K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

OpenAI and its partners are building a global network of data centers for demanding AI workloads. The Infrastructure Quality team sets and verifies quality, reliability, and performance requirements for equipment across that network.

As a Manufacturing Quality Engineer, you will oversee the quality of data center equipment at supplier factories. You will use production data, audits, and test results to identify systemic, recurring, or safety-related issues and work with suppliers to address them through Closed Loop Learning (CLL).

Key Responsibilities:

### Manufacturing Monitoring and Supplier Improvement

- Monitor production progress, quality controls, inspection results, and test readiness with Manufacturing Operations.

- Flag emerging risks and coordinate responses with suppliers.

- Audit products and processes during and after production against engineering requirements and quality standards.

- Document findings and track corrective actions to closure.

- Agree on production checkpoints and inspection and testing requirements with suppliers and internal teams.

- Escalate risks to equipment acceptance or delivery.

- Develop supplier and product scorecards with Manufacturing Operations.

- Review audit findings, test results, and recurring defects with suppliers to prioritize improvements.

- Lead the CLL process with suppliers, tracking root cause analyses and corrective actions.

### Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT)

- Develop product-specific FAT requirements and standard test formats with suppliers and OpenAI teams.

- Document critical-to-quality (CTQ) characteristics each test must verify.

- Ensure auditable supplier records and maintain controlled revision history.

- Conduct periodic supplier audits to check adherence to approved test procedures.

### Factory Witness Testing (FWT)

- Develop standard FWT checklists with OpenAI subject matter experts and stakeholders.

- Manage documentation and reporting for witness tests.

- Confirm that each witness-test issue is resolved or covered by a documented deviation.

### Deviation Management

- Assess short shipments and missing or failed tests with Manufacturing Operations.

- Coordinate supplier support to resolve issues at project sites.

- Document and track deviations through closure.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering.

- At least 10 years of data center industry experience in quality engineering and project management.

- Experience with FAT and FWT, and resolving equipment quality issues.

- Ability to develop test checklists, define CTQs, and maintain auditable quality records.

- Experience monitoring supplier production, auditing products and processes, and using scorecards to improve quality.

- Ability to coordinate with multiple teams and communicate quality requirements.

- Willingness to travel approximately 40–60% of the time to supplier facilities and project sites.

Preferred Skills:

- Technical knowledge of data center infrastructure.

- Experience in supplier performance management for mission-critical facilities.

- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer or similar certifications.

- PMP or equivalent project management certification.

- Experience in industrial or high-volume manufacturing environments.

## Skills

### Required
- electrical engineering
- mechanical engineering
- industrial engineering
- quality engineering
- project management
- Closed Loop Learning
- supplier management
- auditing
- test planning

### Nice to have
- data center infrastructure
- supplier performance management
- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer
- PMP
- industrial manufacturing

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