# Data Center Hardware Quality & Reliability Engineer at OpenAI

- Company: OpenAI
- What the company does: Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.
- Company website: https://openai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $226K to $285K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Apply by: 2026-11-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/e7594296-a38b-43a1-b4f8-01253a3b7732?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openai-data-center-hardware-quality-and-reliability-engineer/

## About the role

Own the end-to-end data-center hardware quality and reliability loop for OpenAI’s 3P infrastructure and 1P current and next-gen platforms. Turn field failures into quantified risk, fast containment, verified root cause, improved MQE/NPI and manufacturing-test coverage, accurate spares forecasts, and upstream changes that prevent recurrence. The first hire must combine practical hardware/system understanding, reliability engineering, data fluency, and cross-functional technical leadership at data-center scale. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- BS in electrical, mechanical, computer, materials, reliability engineering, physics, or equivalent experience, MS preferred
- 8+ years in hardware quality/reliability, server/rack systems, or mission-critical infrastructure, 3+ years owning field-failure, RMA, or CAPA outcomes
- Solid working understanding of hardware and system architecture across board, tray, rack, firmware, telemetry, manufacturing test, and fleet behavior, deep expertise in every subsystem is not required
- Reliability statistics: censored life data, Weibull/Poisson/binomial methods, confidence bounds, MTBF/MTTR, and reliability growth
- Hands-on FMEA/FTA, accelerated or reliability-demonstration testing, 8D/CAPA, FA, and corrective-action verification
- Working proficiency with SQL and Python/R or equivalent analytics tools

Tags: Scaling

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