OpenAI
Product Manufacturing & Quality Engineer
$123K–$285K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
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- Candidates may need to meet certain legal status requirements under U.S. export control laws and regulations.
About the job
Drives manufacturing readiness, quality, reliability, and release decisions for AI supercomputer hardware from product development through mass production.
What you'll do
- Own manufacturing and quality readiness across L6, L10, and L11, including qualification, production controls, and release recommendations.
- Lead supplier and production-line performance reviews, audits, issue investigations, corrective actions, and readiness improvements.
- Coordinate with engineering, operations, SMEs, and manufacturing partners to manage changes, risks, milestones, and product quality.
What they ask for
- Track record owning manufacturing and quality outcomes for complex hardware from new product introduction through production ramp and sustaining operations.
- Significant experience with multinational JDM/CM partners in manufacturing readiness, process controls, yield improvement, quality, reliability, and issue closure.
- Experience building integrated readiness plans, managing qualification gates, and making evidence-based release recommendations.
- Experience with structured problem solving and root cause analysis, statistical methods, and manufacturing and quality data.
Nice to have
- Understanding of high-performance computing hardware and manufacturing risks across component, system, and rack integration.
- Familiarity with DFQ, DFX, DFM, DFA, DFT, and DFR.
Pay
$123K – $285K USD base salary
Tools
L6, L10, L11, JDM/CM, 8D, 5 Whys
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