Electrical Engineer, Robotics

About the Position

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer, Robotics to join our team at OpenAI in San Francisco, CA. This role is full-time and requires in-person presence 4 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Own significant portions of the electrical architecture for compact, highly integrated robotic and electromechanical systems, including sensing, communication, power distribution, and actuator interfaces.
• Design and implement compact electronics spanning circuit design, component selection, PCB layout, bring-up, validation, and deployment.
• Build and validate hardware in integrated robotic systems, driving issues from first observation through root cause and design resolution.
• Partner closely with mechanical, firmware, software, controls, manufacturing, and research teams to deliver coherent system-level solutions.
• Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs across performance, size, power, reliability, manufacturability, and iteration speed.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience developing electrical systems for robotics, consumer electronics, medical devices, wearables, cameras, or other tightly integrated electromechanical products.
• Experience with technologies such as BGAs, rigid-flex assemblies, fine-pitch interconnects, micro-coax, FPCs, dense connector systems, or similar packaging approaches.
• Ability to reason across electrical, firmware, and mechanical boundaries when making design decisions.
• Comfortable taking ownership of loosely defined problems and turning them into working systems with limited direction.
• Experience partnering closely with cross-functional teams to translate product goals into practical hardware systems.
• Enjoy building and validating integrated prototypes where mechanical, electrical, firmware, and sensing systems are developed together.
• Enjoy collaborating closely with and supporting the growth of other engineers on the team.

Nice to Have

• Experience with GMSL, MIPI/CSI, FPD-Link, or other high-speed camera interfaces.
• Experience with multi-board robotic or electromechanical systems that include distributed sensing, actuation, and real-time communication.
• Experience bringing hardware through EVT/DVT-style builds, low-volume production, or contract-manufacturer-supported builds.
• Familiarity with writing bring-up, test, or diagnostic firmware in C, C++, Rust, or Python.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $287K – $423K
• Offers Equity
• Comprehensive benefits package including:
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in our offices
  • Relocation support for eligible employees

About the Company

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. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our team.

Join us in shaping the future of technology.