Power Engineer

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI research company in San Francisco is seeking a Power Engineer to join their Compute team. The ideal candidate will have expertise in mechanical systems, power design, and a passion for innovative hardware solutions in data center applications. This role offers a hybrid work model and is focused on optimizing AI workloads through advanced system designs.

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience in hardware systems.
• Experience in power circuit and DC/DC converter design.
• Strong bias toward action in solving challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead power design and integrity for AI systems.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on power delivery solutions.
• Innovate onboard power conversion specifications.

Skills

Mechanical systems design

Power design

Reliability analysis

Power integrity design

System-level design

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Job description

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About The Team

The Compute team designs advanced AI systems, working across workload modeling and hardware co-design. We collaborate closely with partners to integrate system and data center design and are seeking engineers to help create solutions for data center applications.

About The Team

The Compute team designs advanced AI systems, working across workload modeling and hardware co-design. We collaborate closely with partners to integrate system and data center design and are seeking engineers to help create solutions for data center applications.

This team works with partners to optimize hardware for AI workloads, evaluate emerging technologies, and bring hardware platforms into production.

If you’re excited to work at the intersection of deep learning and data center design, this role is for you!

About The Role

We’re looking for mechanical system design engineers with deep expertise in mechanical systems and strong system-level design experience. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In This Role, You Will

• 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.
  
  

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

• 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.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

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  Full-time

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  Research Services

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