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About the role
We are hiring a Physical Engineering Business Lead to bring firsthand product engineering experience into our customer work. You’ll combine deep familiarity with CAD, simulation, or related engineering tools with the ability to lead customer discovery, explain complex ideas clearly, and turn promising use cases into high-impact projects. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Firsthand experience designing or building physical products, including substantial hands-on work with CAD, simulation, or related engineering tools
- Deep understanding of engineering workflows and tradeoffs, with clear examples of your personal contributions and their impact on products or projects
- Strong discovery and problem-framing skills, including the ability to connect engineering details to customer needs and business value
- The ability to work directly with FDEs and customer technical teams, contribute practical engineering judgment, and stay engaged through implementation
- Strong customer presence and the ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly to senior leaders
- Technical curiosity and the ability to learn quickly in a fast-moving environment, prior AI experience is not required
More about this role
OpenAI’s Physical Engineering work explores how frontier AI can help people design, simulate, and build better physical products. We work directly with customers to identify high-value engineering applications that shorten development cycles, improve product performance, and create measurable business value.
We are hiring a Physical Engineering Business Lead to bring firsthand product engineering experience into our customer work. You’ll combine deep familiarity with CAD, simulation, or related engineering tools with the ability to lead customer discovery, explain complex ideas clearly, and turn promising use cases into high-impact projects.
This is a hands-on, customer-facing role. You’ll work closely with customer engineering teams, senior leaders, forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), and account teams from early discovery through delivery. You’ll help frame valuable design and simulation problems, guide projects with practical engineering judgment, and support adoption and measurable outcomes.
You’ll also turn what we learn from customers into product feedback, reusable delivery methods, and recommendations for our go-to-market and partnership strategies. As the work grows, this...
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