Staff PLM & Engineering Applications Engineer, Consumer Devices

About the Team

The Consumer Devices team at OpenAI builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. We work at the intersection of custom silicon, embedded systems, operating systems, cloud services, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and product design to deliver reliable, production-ready devices at scale.

Within Consumer Devices, Hardware Engineering eXperience, or HEX, is a new bootstrapped team building the environments, applications, compute, product-data systems, and workflows that let hardware engineers do their work without needing to troubleshoot the machinery underneath.

HEX owns virtual engineering environments, HPC/GPU compute, storage, networking, licensing, MCAD/ECAD/CAE applications, PLM, product data, automation, validation, and support as one connected system.

You Might Thrive in This Role If You

• Have deep hands-on experience with Teamcenter, NX, PLM systems, and CAD workflows in a hardware product-development environment.
• Have owned PLM architecture, data models, integrations, migrations, parts imports, release workflows, and engineering application platforms.
• Can write automation in Python, PowerShell, Bash, and similar tools.
• Have experience with packaging, deployment, licensing, validation, and application integrations.
• Understand parts, revisions, BOMs, configurations, lifecycle states, and change workflows.
• Can debug across applications, infrastructure, licenses, VDI, networking, storage, compute, and product data.
• Prefer building durable tooling and automation instead of managing ticket queues.
• See a four-page setup guide and immediately want to replace it with a tested installer.
• Are comfortable in a new bootstrapped team where the environment, standards, workflows, and operating model are still being built.
• Can work directly with engineers, understand their pain, and turn repeated problems into reliable systems.

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.

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