Data Center Electrical R&D Engineer
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Recently funded151 current maintainers88 active leads20 new active leads99 lead step-downs12 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will research, model, prototype, and validate electrical power architectures for high-density AI infrastructure. You will create designs and test plans, evaluate emerging technologies, lead testing, investigate failures, coordinate partners, and document reusable designs for deployment.
Requirements
- 10+ years of electrical engineering, power-system design, data center infrastructure, industrial power, or critical-infrastructure experience
- Expertise in electrical power distribution, substations, transformers, switchgear, protection, UPS systems, generators, and rack-level power delivery
- Experience developing electrical designs for large, complex, or high-availability facilities
- Understanding of power-system modeling, short-circuit analysis, load flow, coordination studies, arc-flash analysis, power quality, grounding, and reliability
- Experience developing testable engineering concepts from evolving requirements
- Experience designing experiments, prototypes, pilots, or validation programs
- Ability to work across electrical, mechanical, controls, compute hardware, construction, commissioning, and operations
- Experience with quantitative analysis, simulation, testing, and field data
- Strong technical writing and communication skills
- Experience directing consultants, manufacturers, and external technology partners
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline
Responsibilities
- Develop electrical architectures from utility interconnection through rack-level power delivery
- Translate compute-platform requirements into electrical capacity, topology, protection, and control requirements
- Create conceptual designs, specifications, diagrams, standards, and reference architectures
- Model electrical performance, capacity, efficiency, reliability, faults, and transient behavior
- Evaluate emerging power-distribution, conversion, UPS, energy-storage, generation, and direct-current technologies
- Develop technical and economic comparisons across design approaches
- Develop prototypes, test plans, acceptance criteria, and validation frameworks
- Lead laboratory, factory, pilot-site, and field testing
- Optimize integrated power and cooling architectures with mechanical and thermal engineers
- Define instrumentation, telemetry, protection, monitoring, and automated-control requirements
- Investigate failures and translate findings into design improvements
- Provide technical direction and design-review leadership
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer Health Savings Account contributions
- Pre-tax health, dependent care, parking, and transit accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible or annual paid time off
- Paid company holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided