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