Systems Test Engineer, End-to-End Validation | Consumer Devices
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 design and execute end-to-end tests for device experiences spanning hardware, software, connectivity, cloud services, and accessories. You'll build test environments, reproduce and diagnose failures, automate high-value scenarios, strengthen regression coverage, and work with embedded, systems, cloud, hardware, QA, and product teams. The role is based in San Francisco with four days in office per week.
Requirements
- Experience with system-level, integration, end-to-end, or validation testing for hardware-software products
- Skill in translating loosely defined product behavior into measurable test procedures
- Experience testing systems spanning devices, networks, backend services, mobile apps, or accessories
- Comfortable with logs, diagnostics, command-line and network tools
- Experience automating tests with Python or similar scripting tools
Responsibilities
- Develop structured test plans and reproducible procedures for user journeys, edge cases, and failure scenarios
- Build and operate complex test environments and execute test campaigns
- Reproduce complex failures, isolate components, and collect logs and telemetry
- Automate high-value scenarios with tooling for device control, setup, measurement, and data collection
- Convert field issues and bugs into repeatable regression tests
- Partner with embedded, systems, cloud, hardware, QA, and product teams to close validation gaps
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 birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures, plus paid sick 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
- Performance-related bonus for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
