Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Data Center Equipment
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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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 oversee the quality of data center equipment at supplier factories, using production data, audits, and test results to find systemic, recurring, or safety-related issues and working with suppliers to fix them through Closed Loop Learning. You will define inspections and factory tests, run FAT and FWT, coordinate issue resolution before shipment, and manage deviations across suppliers and sites. Travel of 40-60% is expected.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering
- 10+ years of data center industry experience spanning quality engineering and project management
- Experience coordinating FAT and FWT with suppliers
- Ability to develop test checklists, define CTQs, and maintain auditable quality records
- Experience with supplier production monitoring, audits, and scorecards
- Experience managing controlled documents and deviations
- Travel approximately 40-60% to supplier facilities and project sites
Responsibilities
- Monitor production progress, quality controls, inspection results, and test readiness
- Audit products and processes against requirements and CTQ characteristics
- Develop supplier and product scorecards
- Lead the Closed Loop Learning process with suppliers
- Develop FAT requirements and test formats
- Develop FWT checklists and review witness test reports
- Manage documentation and revision control
- Conduct periodic supplier audits
- Assess and document deviations and track actions to closure
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends