# Product Manufacturing & Quality Engineer **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $123K - $285K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/65b255da-4fd9-414e-98d4-0bec4eecf8ff?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f6de0ea4-679 ## 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 $123K - $285K per year, with additional compensation including generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and benefits. ## 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 ## 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 working on future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. ## About the Role We are looking for a Product Manufacturing & Quality Engineer to drive technical initiatives related to the manufacturing, quality, and reliability of our AI supercomputer hardware systems. The successful candidate will coordinate with functional SMEs and work with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure that all products are developed and delivered on time and to the highest quality standards. ## Responsibilities - Own the integrated manufacturing and quality readiness for a product across L6, L10, and L11, with clear gates, milestones, deliverables, owners, and closure criteria. - Lead readiness of process flows, tooling, fixtures, assembly operations, test interfaces, and production controls. - Translate product requirements into qualification plans, process controls, test requirements, and acceptance criteria with design engineering and Area SMEs. - Coordinate and drive execution of product and process qualification, reliability testing, and validation with the relevant SMEs. - Own the supplier and line scorecard, using yield, defect tracking, process capability, and reliability data to assess process health, identify trends and escapes, prioritize improvements, and verify their effectiveness. - Lead containment, failure analysis, root cause investigation, and corrective actions for issues affecting the program during development, production, and deployment. - Work on-site with Area SMEs at supplier and sub-supplier locations to assess line readiness and process execution, troubleshoot issues, and verify that agreed controls and corrective actions are implemented. - Lead JDM/CM manufacturing and quality audits and performance reviews for the program, and drive readiness, process, and control gaps to closure. - Assess the manufacturing and quality impact of design, process, source, and site changes. - Provide evidence-based release recommendations using readiness gate status, qualification and control evidence, containment status, and remaining risks and actions. ## Requirements - Have a track record of owning both manufacturing and quality outcomes for complex hardware from new product introduction through production ramp and sustaining operations. - Be hands-on, detail-oriented, and comfortable taking deep ownership of an assigned product, source, or site while coordinating specialists across disciplines. - Understand high-performance computing hardware and the manufacturing and quality risks that carry across component, system, and rack integration. - Partner closely with design engineering and subject matter experts to assess changes, define validation needs, and integrate technical decisions while respecting design and commercial ownership. - Have experience building integrated readiness plans, managing qualification gates and dependencies, and using technical evidence to make clear release recommendations. - Have significant experience working with multinational JDM/CM partners on manufacturing readiness, process controls, yield improvement, quality, reliability, and issue closure. - Be familiar with mechanical and electrical Design for Quality (DFQ), Excellence (DFX), Manufacturability (DFM), Assembly (DFA), Test (DFT), and Reliability (DFR). - Have experience leading structured problem solving and root cause analysis using methods such as 8D, 5 Whys, and fishbone analysis. - Use statistical methods and manufacturing and quality data to understand yield, defects, process capability, and reliability. ## Skills ### Required - hardware development - quality engineering - manufacturing - reliability testing - validation - supplier management - process control - yield improvement - quality assurance - root cause analysis - statistical methods --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/65b255da-4fd9-414e-98d4-0bec4eecf8ff?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)