Staff PLM & Engineering Applications Engineer, Consumer Devices

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