# Staff PLM & Engineering Applications Engineer, Consumer Devices

About the Team The Consumer Devices team at OpenAI builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. We work at the intersection of custom silicon, embedded systems, operating systems, cloud services, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and product design to deliver reliable, production-ready devices at scale. Within Consumer Devices, Hardware Engineering eXperience, or HEX, is a new bootstrapped team building the environments, applications, compute, product-data systems, and workflows that let hardware engineers do their work without needing to troubleshoot the machinery underneath. HEX owns virtual engineering environments, HPC/GPU compute, storage, networking, licensing, MCAD/ECAD/CAE applications, PLM, product data, automation, validation, and support as one connected system. About the Role As a Staff PLM & Engineering Applications Engineer, you will be one of the first technical builders of HEX and the primary counterpart to the HEX lead. You will own the engineering-application and product-data side of the hardware engineering experience, with an initial focus on NX, Teamcenter, licensing, parts import, integrations, packaging,

- **Id**: 952476
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-staff-plm-engineering-applications-engineer-consumer-devices>
- **Role**: Enterprise Apps
- **Role family**: Enterprise Apps
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T00:52:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T06:50:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7417
- **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**: 80
- **Open postings**: 208
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.813
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 257000
- **Max**: 285000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 285000

## Technologies

- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-16T01:55:43Z

## Visa

- 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

## Liveness

- **Score**: 27
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.614
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 285000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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