# Product Designer, Physical Engineering

About the Team The Physical Engineering team sits within OpenAI’s Enterprise Verticals organization. We’re exploring how frontier AI can help people design, simulate, and build better physical products - shortening development cycles, improving product performance, and expanding what engineering teams can accomplish. We’re building experiences within ChatGPT and integrations with tools such as CAD, eCAD, CAE, and simulation software to support engineers from early concepts through design, validation, and preparation for production. We operate as a small founding team, working directly with customers and closely with research, product, data science, and forward-deployed engineering. We learn by building, putting products in users’ hands, and using their feedback to guide what comes next. About the Role We’re looking for a highly autonomous Product Designer to become the first dedicated designer on the Physical Engineering team. You’ll help define this product area from its earliest stages - shaping what we build, how it works, and how design operates within the team. This is a hands-on, zero-to-one role for someone with a founder’s mindset. You’ll work deeply with engineers and cust

- **Id**: 4197341
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-product-designer-physical-engineering>
- **Role**: Design
- **Role family**: Design
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:44:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T20:53:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Benefits**: Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Conversational AI, Code Intelligence, Foundation Models, AI Research Labs

## Company

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- **Name**: OpenAI
- **Domain**: openai.com
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- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 214
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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 245000
- **Max**: 310000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 310000

## Technologies

- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **ChatGPT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T20:53:37Z

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- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 262 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 262

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- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T00:16:49Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 310000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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