Product Manufacturing & Quality Engineer

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.