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Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems to improve people’s lives.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for an Electrical Engineer to develop the AI inference compute systems that power OpenAI’s humanoid robots. This role combines compute architecture, high-speed digital design, onboard power electronics, and compact HDI PCB development.\nWe’re looking for a self-driven engineer who takes ownership from concept through deployment. Above all, you should enjoy hands-on engineering: bringing up boards, characterizing interfaces, and tracking challenging failures to their root cause.\nIn this role, you will:\nOwn compute hardware architecture and development, from component selection and schematic design through PCB layout, validation, and deployment.\n\nDesign and integrate high-speed interfaces-including PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, MIPI, USB, and DisplayPort-balancing bandwidth, connectivity, power, and signal integrity.\n\nDevelop onboard DC-to-DC conversion and power distribution to meet efficiency, transient-response, sequencing, and power-integrity requirements.\n\nDefine HDI PCB stackups, dielectric materials, via structures, and routing strategies that balance electrical performance, manufacturability, reliability, and cost.\n\nLead bench bring-up and validation, including test planning, high-speed interface characterization, power measurements, and debugging through verified resolution.\n\nPartner with thermal, mechanical, EMC, and software teams to integrate compute hardware into tightly constrained robotic systems.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\nHave 5+ years of experience developing compute hardware or similarly complex high-speed electronics, with demonstrated ownership of complete designs.\n\nBring strong hands-on measurement and debugging skills, including practical experience with oscilloscopes, probing techniques, and interface validation.\n\nUnderstand high-speed digital interfaces deeply enough to make architectural tradeoffs and diagnose issues across hardware and software boundaries.\n\nHave strong signal-integrity and power-integrity fundamentals, a solid foundation in power electronics, and practical experience designing complex HDI PCBs.\n\nCan use a Linux shell, write simple shell scripts, connect over SSH, and perform basic Ethernet and network troubleshooting.\n\nTake initiative, turn ambiguous requirements into concrete engineering plans, and follow through to deliver working systems.\n\nAdditional, preferred qualifications:\nExperience designing around AI inference SoCs or accelerators, including their power, memory, and communication architectures.\n\nFamiliarity with how AI inference workloads map to silicon capabilities, including compute throughput (TOPS), DRAM bandwidth and capacity, and how workload requirements and DRAM technology choices affect achievable performance and performance per watt.\n\nExperience bringing compute hardware into production and resolving fabrication, assembly, or test issues with manufacturing partners.\n\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. 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