Electrical Engineer Robotics
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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will independently drive hardware development from early concepts and prototypes through circuit design, PCB layout, bring-up, validation, integration, and deployment. You will make system tradeoffs and work across mechanical, firmware, software, controls, manufacturing, and research disciplines.
Requirements
- 6+ years developing electrical systems for robotics, consumer electronics, medical devices, wearables, cameras, or related electromechanical products
- Experience owning hardware from concept through PCB layout, bring-up, validation, and deployment
- Experience designing compact, high-density electronics within mechanical constraints
- Ability to reason across electrical, firmware, and mechanical boundaries
- Ability to independently turn loosely defined problems into working systems
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams on hardware systems
Responsibilities
- Own electrical architecture for integrated robotic and electromechanical systems
- Design compact electronics including circuits, components, PCB layouts, bring-up, validation, and deployment
- Build and validate integrated robotic hardware
- Drive observed hardware issues through root cause and design resolution
- Partner across mechanical, firmware, software, controls, manufacturing, and research functions
- Make engineering tradeoffs across performance, size, power, reliability, manufacturability, and iteration speed
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer Health Savings Account contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, parking, and transit accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO or up to 15 annual days for non-exempt employees
- 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