Hardware Engineer, Test

The role

You will work on Machine Learning/AI hardware system projects to craft solutions for current and future data center deployments. You will design, implement, and execute test plans to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of supercomputing hardware systems.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and execute comprehensive test plans for supercomputing hardware systems.
• Develop test plans and methodologies for processors, memory modules, custom accelerators and interconnects.
• Collaborate with hardware design, manufacturing, firmware teams and vendors to resolve issues.
• Perform in-depth debugging on the hardware system.
• Assess signal integrity, error rates, and link performance for high-speed links and SerDes technology.
• Collaborate with the lab manager to maintain equipment and hardware systems.
• Utilize advanced diagnostic and measurement tools to capture performance metrics.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline testing processes.
• Document test results and report defects.

Required qualifications

• At least 10 years of industry experience, including experience testing or supporting hardware design teams for datacenter applications
• Proven experience in hardware testing and validation
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, power supplies, analyzers, and other test instruments
• Strong understanding of electrical, power and thermal testing methodologies
• Expertise with protocol of common interfaces such as SPI, I2C, USB, DDRx
• Experience characterizing and verifying compliance of Datacenter Ethernet interfaces
• Hands-on experience with high-speed electrical and thermal test equipment such as oscilloscopes, VNA, TDR, thermal cameras, heat sinks, and test chambers
• Experience in using Cadence Allegro and automation / scripting
• Experience and good knowledge of system testing from xPUs, board, rack level to data center level

Nice to have

• Proficiency in Python, Bash and test automation frameworks

Before you apply

• Candidates for this role 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 AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for advanced AI workloads.