Design Engineer Power Generation
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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 develop power-generation architectures and technical criteria for large-scale campuses. You will evaluate technologies, coordinate design interfaces, review proposals, manage equipment selection and commissioning, resolve field issues, and document scalable engineering standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience in power generation or industrial power systems.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience taking generation projects from concept and equipment selection through detailed design.
- Knowledge of generation technologies and supporting electrical, mechanical, and fuel systems.
- Knowledge of protection, controls, grid paralleling, islanding, and black start.
- Experience evaluating engineering studies, drawings, specifications, and supplier proposals.
- Experience coordinating suppliers, construction partners, utilities, and operators.
Responsibilities
- Develop power-generation concepts, reference architectures, design criteria, and site-specific requirements.
- Evaluate generation technologies and system configurations.
- Define and review electrical and mechanical balance-of-plant requirements, protection, controls, and operating modes.
- Translate infrastructure load profiles and schedules into capacity plans and commissioning criteria.
- Lead technical diligence of supplier and partner proposals.
- Coordinate interfaces across utility, electrical, cooling, controls, fuel, permitting, construction, and operations.
- Evaluate tradeoffs and document technical recommendations.
- Support procurement, design reviews, testing, construction, commissioning, and operational handoff.
- Investigate performance issues and incorporate lessons into engineering standards.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families, with employer Health Savings Account contributions.
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expense accounts.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees or up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
- 13+ paid company holidays, coordinated office closures, and paid 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.
