# Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Data Center Equipment

About the Team OpenAI and its capital and technology partners are building a global network of data centers for demanding AI workloads. The Infrastructure Quality team sets and verifies quality, reliability, and performance requirements for equipment across that network. We work with manufacturing partners, general contractors, engineers, and operations staff from supplier qualification through commissioning. Together, we verify that equipment arrives ready for installation, startup, and long-term service. About the Role As a Manufacturing Quality Engineer, you will oversee the quality of data center equipment at supplier factories. You will use production data, audits, and test results to identify systemic, recurring, or safety-related issues and work with suppliers to address them through Closed Loop Learning (CLL). You will work with suppliers and internal teams to define inspections and factory tests for each type of equipment. You will coordinate issue resolution before shipment and manage deviations across multiple suppliers and project sites. Key Responsibilities Manufacturing Monitoring and Supplier Improvement Manufacturing monitoring: Work with Manufacturing Operations to

- **Id**: 3556449
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-manufacturing-quality-engineer-data-center-equipment>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T22:23:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T04:22:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8061
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Conversational AI, Generative Video, Code Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 2
- **Name**: OpenAI
- **Domain**: openai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openai>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 198
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.833
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 165000
- **Max**: 290000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 290000

## Technologies

- **CAPA** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-31T01:02:48Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 262 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 262; Filings prev 12m: 114; Green card filings 12m: 3

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 290000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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