OpenAI
Product Reliability Engineer
$207K–$365K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 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
Owns reliability engineering for advanced IT hardware, defining requirements, qualifying products, investigating failures, and improving durability and availability from component assemblies through integrated racks.
What you'll do
- Define reliability requirements and qualification plans; develop and execute hardware life and environmental tests.
- Analyze test and field data, lead failure investigations, and verify corrective actions with suppliers and engineering partners.
- Present qualification evidence and residual risks, and track fleet trends to guide reliability improvements and requalification.
What they ask for
- Hands-on reliability engineering experience with advanced IT hardware, including PCBAs, electromechanical assemblies, and integrated racks.
- Experience designing and executing hardware reliability tests, debugging failures, and translating results into design or process improvements.
- Knowledge of electronic assembly failure mechanisms and ability to develop qualification plans from mission profiles and failure risks.
- Ability to analyze reliability data, including censored data, Weibull distributions, and confidence bounds, using statistical software.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-power electronics, dense interconnects, or liquid-cooled hardware.
- Experience with suppliers, manufacturers, test labs, and structured failure analysis methods such as 8D.
Pay
$207K – $365K USD base salary
Tools
Python, R, JMP, Weibull
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