OpenAI
System Power Engineer, Consumer Devices
About this role
OpenAI seeks a System Power Engineer to measure, characterize, and optimize power consumption for AI-powered consumer hardware devices. You'll develop testing automation, conduct subsystem-level power analysis, and collaborate across teams to improve battery life, thermal performance, and overall system efficiency.
What you'll do
- Design and develop power testing automation across various workloads and operating conditions
- Measure subsystem-level power consumption using lab instrumentation and power breakout probes
- Create and execute power characterization tests from basic to real-world usage scenarios
- Partner with electrical engineers to identify power efficiency improvements
- Collaborate with software teams to optimize energy usage and user experience
- Define repeatable power benchmarks and launch readiness metrics
What they're looking for
- Power consumption measurement on embedded hardware platforms
- Hardware-in-the-loop laboratory design and operation
- Power profile analysis and system performance correlation
- Python programming
- Cross-functional collaboration with engineering teams
- Battery-powered product optimization
- Statistics and experimentation methodologies
- Power measurement instrumentation
Benefits
- Hybrid work model (4 days in office, 1 day remote) in San Francisco
- Relocation assistance available
- Equal opportunity employer with comprehensive anti-discrimination policies
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OpenAI
OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.
View all jobs at OpenAILikely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience measuring and optimizing power consumption on embedded hardware platforms. What tools and instrumentation have you used?
- Describe a time you designed and operated a hardware-in-the-loop testing laboratory. How did you scale device testing and ensure reliable, repeatable results?