Manufacturing Design Engineering

OpenAI is building next-generation hardware that demands world-class execution in design, manufacturing, and supply chain. In this role, you will set the technical direction for how we scale cutting-edge concepts into reliable, high-volume products. You will serve as a critical bridge between design, engineering, and global manufacturing, ensuring that our hardware innovations are manufacturable, repeatable, and industry-leading.

What You’ll Do:

• Define and drive the manufacturing process strategy from EVT through high-volume production, ensuring scalability, quality, and efficiency.

• Influence product architecture by leading design-for-manufacturability (DFM) engagement with cross-functional engineering teams.

• Establish advanced assembly processes, tooling methodologies, and automation solutions for complex mechanical and electronic systems.

• Serve as the technical authority in engagements with contract manufacturers and vendors, ensuring alignment on process capability, reliability, and throughput.

• Solve high-impact materials, mechanical, and process challenges to unlock novel product architectures.

• Set standards for manufacturing excellence, driving innovation in yield, reliability, and factory execution.

What We’re Looking For:

• Extensive experience in consumer electronics manufacturing, NPI, or advanced process engineering, with a proven record of scaling complex hardware programs.

• Recognized expertise in prototyping, process validation, and leading cross-functional DFM at the architectural level.

• Deep knowledge of manufacturing technologies, materials science, and global factory operations.

• Ability to shape and influence external manufacturing ecosystems, including executive-level vendor and supplier engagement.

• A strategic, execution-driven problem solver who thrives in ambiguity and moves quickly to deliver world-class hardware.

About OpenAI

OpenAI 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. 

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