Description
As a Manufacturing Test Engineer on Stargate, you will own the development of manufacturing test strategies, tools, and execution practices for critical AI infrastructure hardware. You will work at the intersection of hardware engineering, manufacturing partners, infrastructure systems, and deployment teams to ensure that hardware shipped into OpenAI environments is testable, reliable, and production-ready at scale.
In this role, you will translate product and system requirements into manufacturing test coverage, drive the design of test stations and automation, and partner closely with suppliers and contract manufacturers to identify, root-cause, and eliminate yield issues and field escapes. This role is especially important in an environment where OpenAI depends on external partners and needs technical operators who can independently verify quality, challenge assumptions, and enforce repeatable, controlled execution.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and deploy manufacturing test solutions in collaboration with OpenAI’s global manufacturing partners.
- Define test requirements with NPI, hardware, and systems teams; drive Design for Test (DFT) to ensure testability and manufacturability.
- Maintain stable test operations for sustaining products, including deployment of software, firmware, and hardware updates to manufacturing test systems.
- Build and maintain automated test scripts to support functional testing, diagnostics, and new feature validation.
- Lead initiatives to improve test coverage, reduce test time, and lower manufacturing cost while maintaining product quality.
- Identify, analyze, and resolve manufacturing yield issues and field escapes; drive root cause and corrective actions to closure.
- Design, validate, and deploy test stations, fixtures, and tooling required for scalable production testing.
- Partner with NPI, manufacturing and supplier teams to ensure consistent and reliable test execution across sites.
- Develop and maintain documentation for test processes, procedures, and system configurations to ensure standardized practices.