Data Engineer, Hardware & Consumer Devices

The role

You will design, build, and scale data infrastructure for hardware and consumer devices. This role involves creating data pipelines, platforms, and datasets to support manufacturing, customer operations, and device performance.

What you will do

• Design and implement reliable, scalable data pipelines, platforms, and datasets.
• Integrate information across manufacturing systems, factory operations, device telemetry, and customer-facing systems.
• Develop reusable datasets and data architectures.
• Connect manufacturing conditions with product performance, reliability, and failure signals.
• Design systems that evolve from early-stage development to large-scale consumer deployment.
• Work with hardware and software engineers, manufacturing teams, and Data Scientists.
• Help establish engineering standards, architectural principles, and data quality practices.

Required qualifications

• Exceptional Data Engineering fundamentals.
• Track record of designing, building, and operating complex data systems.
• Strong technical judgment around data architecture, distributed systems, data modeling, reliability, and scalability.
• Experience developing production-grade pipelines and infrastructure across heterogeneous data sources.

Nice to have

• Experience with hardware, consumer electronics, connected devices, or IoT.
• Experience building data infrastructure for manufacturing, factory operations, or supply-chain systems.
• Familiarity with device telemetry, reliability engineering, product quality, or failure analysis.
• Experience supporting customer operations, technical support, or Trust & Safety.
• A track record of building data platforms or foundational infrastructure in a startup or rapidly scaling organization.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company is building a new generation of AI-powered consumer devices.