OpenAI · 19 hours ago
Electrical Engineer - Systems
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking electrical design engineers with deep expertise in electrical or electronic design and strong system level design knowledge to work on AI supercomputer solutions for data center applications.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
As a EE and Hardware Systems Design Engineer, you will work on Machine Learning/AI hardware systems projects to craft the solutions for current and future data center deployments
Worked with hardware team on test vehicle, bring up board design, evaluating end to end system design trade off
Lead EE circuit level design, work with power, thermal, mechanical teams to drive AI hardware system design
You will work with product teams to ensure that goals are met with systems and will work with ASIC/FPGA, Software, and Verification teams to ensure proper verification of features
You will also work with the manufacturing teams to ensure that designs are manufacturable and ready for volume production, and with the field teams to support systems that are deployed in the data center
Gather system requirements, define architecture, execute hardware design, and product validation
Lead the system bring up, validation, NPI, deployment, and sustaining of hardware solutions
Work cross-functionally with Hardware, Software, Mechanical, Thermal, Validation, Manufacturing, and external vendors
Drive system development from concept through production
Lead debug and root cause analysis of deployed systems
Qualification
Required
At least 10 years of industry experience, including experience designing hardware systems for data center applications
Experience in designing EE circuit, CPU/GPU/TPU hw system design, board bring up, system design, integration, and system bring up
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Strong bias toward action, and won't take no for an answer
Experience and good knowledge of system design experience in the mechanical and product design areas, from xPUs, board, rack level to data center level
Strong intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills; and an equally strong talent for sharing that information clearly and concisely with others
Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
Mental health and wellness support
401(k) plan with 4% matching
Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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