OpenAI · 14 hours ago
Power Engineer, Hardware
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$310K/yr - $460K/yr
6+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a mechanical system design engineer with expertise in mechanical systems to lead power design for AI systems in data center applications.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Lead board and system power design and power integrity for AI systems in data center applications
Collaborate with board, rack, and system engineers, as well as design partners, to drive power delivery solutions at board and system levels
Analyze performance, cost, reliability, and availability trade-offs
Innovate and design onboard power conversion specifications and solutions (e.g., hotswaps, single-phase/multi-phase voltage regulators, LDOs, intermediate bus converters); evaluate design trade-offs for AI hardware and system design
Identify and evaluate new technologies and methodologies to improve power delivery performance in data center product design
Lead projects involving new technologies or novel applications of existing technologies
Partner with industry leaders to evaluate and adopt the most compelling technologies
Engage cross-functionally to ensure roll-out, testing, and validation
Provide technical leadership and direction while troubleshooting system-level power delivery issues
Qualification
Required
Have at least 6 years of industry experience designing hardware systems for data center applications, including power circuit, DC/DC converter design, and power integrity design
Hold a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Bring a strong bias toward action and persistence in solving challenges
Have system design experience across mechanical and product design, from board to data center level
Have a strong intrinsic desire to learn and a talent for clearly sharing knowledge with others
Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
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2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
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CEO, Applications
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CEO & Co-Founder
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