Product Designer, Physical Engineering
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 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 be the first dedicated designer on the Physical Engineering team, shaping what is built and how design operates. You will lead design from customer discovery and prototyping through launch, working directly with engineers and customers on complex technical workflows. The role is based in San Francisco with relocation assistance.
Requirements
- Independently led substantial zero-to-one products from exploration through launch
- Exceptional product judgment, interaction design, and visual craft for complex professional software
- High autonomy in defining problems and paths forward
- Experience working directly with highly technical users
- Rapid prototyping and cross-functional collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Define the product and design vision for AI-powered physical-engineering experiences
- Lead design from customer discovery and early prototyping through execution, launch, and iteration
- Create intuitive interfaces for understanding, inspecting, and refining designs, simulations, and model outputs
- Work directly with mechanical, electrical, and other physical engineers to understand their workflows
- Partner with product, engineering, research, data science, and forward-deployed teams
- Prototype new interaction models for visual, spatial, and technically complex work
- Establish foundational design patterns and practices that scale
- Identify high-leverage opportunities in an ambiguous product space
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- 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
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
