Product Reliability Engineer

The role

You will own reliability engineering for advanced IT hardware ranging from PCBAs to integrated racks. You will define reliability requirements, design and execute qualification tests, and drive failure analysis from development through production and field deployment.

What you will do

• Define reliability requirements and targets for PCBAs, trays, systems, and racks.
• Drive design-for-reliability reviews using DFMEA and physics of failure.
• Own reliability qualification plans from new product introduction through production.
• Develop and execute accelerated life and environmental tests.
• Analyze life-test and field data using Weibull and other reliability models.
• Lead failure investigations from symptom reproduction through physical root cause.
• Review supplier reliability plans and evidence.
• Work with internal and partner labs to develop fixtures, instrumentation, and test methods.
• Partner with manufacturing and quality engineers to validate reliability screens.
• Evaluate reliability risks introduced by assembly and integration.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on reliability engineering experience with advanced IT hardware such as AI/HPC servers, networking equipment, or storage systems.
• Experience designing, instrumenting, and executing hardware reliability tests.
• Understanding of failure mechanisms in electronic assemblies.
• Ability to turn mission profiles and failure risks into qualification plans.
• Experience leading reliability qualification through development and production milestones.
• Experience working directly with component suppliers, joint design manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and external test labs.
• Application of design for reliability, DFMEA, and physics-of-failure methods.
• Experience driving structured failure analysis and corrective action using methods such as 8D.
• Ability to analyze reliability and life-test data using tools such as Python, R, JMP, or equivalent statistical software.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-power electronics, dense interconnects, or liquid-cooled hardware.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees

Before you apply

• Candidates may need to meet certain legal status requirements to comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations.
• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads.