# Staff PLM & Engineering Applications Engineer, Consumer Devices **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Experience**: staff **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $257K - $285K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/1bec1791-b073-4f2a-9de6-34e36238c216?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ff98fc74-8ab ## 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 position is $257K – $285K, 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 The Consumer Devices team at OpenAI builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. Within Consumer Devices, Hardware Engineering eXperience (HEX) is a new bootstrapped team building environments, applications, compute, product-data systems, and workflows for hardware engineers. ## About the Role As a Staff PLM & Engineering Applications Engineer, you will be one of the first technical builders of HEX and the primary counterpart to the HEX lead. You will own the engineering-application and product-data side of the hardware engineering experience, focusing on NX, Teamcenter, licensing, parts import, integrations, packaging, validation, and user workflows. ## In This Role, You Will - Own the technical architecture, deployment, configuration, integration, validation, and long-term operation of NX and Teamcenter - Build reliable workflows for parts import, product-data migration, metadata quality, BOMs, revisions, lifecycle states, and release processes - Replace manual setup documentation with automated installation, configuration, validation, diagnostics, and recovery workflows - Build tooling around NX, Teamcenter, MCAD, ECAD, CAE, plugins, licenses, and engineering environments - Define and validate the golden path for hardware engineers - Partner with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, simulation, manufacturing, systems, and product-design teams to understand where workflows break - Work with Compute & Infrastructure-focused HEX Engineers to integrate applications, product data, storage, VDI, HPC, and licenses - Partner with contractors and vendors while maintaining architecture, requirements, validation, acceptance, and long-term ownership inside HEX - Build health checks, regression tests, observability, diagnostics, and support tooling - Help establish technical standards, operating model, and engineering culture for the growing HEX organization ## You Might Thrive in This Role If You - Have deep hands-on experience with Teamcenter, NX, PLM systems, and CAD workflows in a hardware product-development environment - Have owned PLM architecture, data models, integrations, migrations, parts imports, release workflows, and engineering application platforms - Can write automation scripts in Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc. - Have experience with packaging, deployment, licensing, validation, and application integrations - Understand parts, revisions, BOMs, configurations, lifecycle states, and change workflows - Prefer building durable tooling and automation over managing ticket queues - Are comfortable in a new bootstrapped team where the environment, standards, workflows, and operating model are still being built - Can work directly with engineers, understand their pain, and turn repeated problems into reliable systems ## Minimum Qualifications - Experience with Teamcenter Active Workspace, BMIDE, ITK, SOA/REST, and Teamcenter customization - Experience with NX Open, managed mode, customer defaults, templates, licensing, packaging, and upgrades ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience with PLM migrations, legacy part imports, data cleanup, ERP integrations, and ECAD integrations - Experience with MCAD, ECAD, CAE/FEA, HPC, VDI/AVD, GPU workstations, and engineering storage - Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, infrastructure automation, and self-service systems - Experience in complex hardware-development environments, including consumer devices, robotics, automotive, aerospace, or embedded systems ## Skills ### Required - Teamcenter - NX - PLM systems - CAD workflows - Python - PowerShell - Bash ### Nice to have - PLM migrations - legacy part imports - data cleanup - ERP integrations - ECAD integrations - MCAD - ECAD - CAE/FEA - HPC - VDI/AVD - GPU workstations - engineering storage --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/1bec1791-b073-4f2a-9de6-34e36238c216?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)