# Hardware Engineer, Test

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $177K - $300K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $177K - $300K per year, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and the following benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

## About the Team:

OpenAI's Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models.

## Responsibilities:

As a Hardware Test Engineer, you will work on Machine Learning/AI hardware system projects to craft solutions for current and future data center deployments. You will bring a strong understanding of hardware system testing, excellent project management skills, and the ability to collaborate across multiple teams to ensure efficient lab operations.

Responsibilities include:

- Designing, implementing, and executing comprehensive test plans to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of supercomputing hardware systems

- Developing detailed test plans and methodologies tailored to hardware components, including processors, memory modules, custom accelerators, and interconnects

- Collaborating with hardware design, manufacturing, firmware teams, and vendors to identify, analyze, and resolve issues affecting hardware, power, thermal, and high-speed interconnects

- Performing in-depth debugging on the hardware system

- Utilizing advanced diagnostic and measurement tools to capture performance metrics and analyze system behavior

- Developing and maintaining automation scripts to streamline testing processes

- Effective communication to clearly document test results, report defects, and collaborate with cross-functional teams

## Requirements:

- At least 10 years of industry experience, including experience testing or supporting hardware design teams for datacenter applications

- Proven experience in hardware testing and validation, with hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, power supplies, analyzers, and other test instruments

- Strong understanding of electrical, power, and thermal testing methodologies

- Expertise with protocol of common interfaces such as SPI, I2C, USB, DDRx

- Hands-on experience with high-speed electrical and thermal test equipment such as oscilloscopes, VNA, TDR, thermal cameras, heat sinks, and test chambers

- Experience in using Cadence Allegro and automation/scripting

- Strong bias toward action, and won't take no for an answer

- Experience and good knowledge of system testing from xPUs, board, rack level to data center level

- Strong intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills, and an equally strong talent for sharing that information clearly and concisely with others

- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions

- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills

## Skills

### Required
- hardware testing
- project management
- collaboration
- debugging
- automation scripts
- communication
- electrical testing
- thermal testing
- protocol interfaces
- high-speed test equipment
- Cadence Allegro
- automation/scripting
- system testing

### Nice to have
- Python
- Bash
- test automation frameworks

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