engineering
Posted Jun 16System Power Engineer, Consumer Devices
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - Collaborate with software engineering teams to optimize energy usage in scenarios that impact battery life, device temperature, charging performance, and overall user experience.
- - Define repeatable power benchmarks and measurement methodologies to assess launch readiness and track performance throughout the product lifecycle.
Requirements
- ABOUT THE TEAM OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
- The Consumer Devices team is building a new generation of AI-powered products that seamlessly integrate hardware and software to create intuitive, transformative experiences.
- We bring together experts across embedded systems, machine learning, hardware, design, and product engineering to develop products at the intersection of AI and consumer technology.
- experience with embedded hardware platforms, power instrumentation, and the analysis of power profiles and system behavior.
- - Develop and execute power characterization tests spanning basic workloads, complex mixed-use scenarios, and representative day-of-use experiences.
- experience designing and operating complex hardware-in-the-loop laboratories and orchestrating device testing at scale. -
- Experience analyzing power profiles and correlating them with overall system performance. -
- Experience defining repeatable power benchmarks and launch readiness metrics for hardware products. - Strong proficiency in Python, experience in C/C++ PREFERRED
- QUALIFICATIONS - Familiarity with statistics, experimentation methodologies, or data science concepts. -
- Experience performing subsystem-level power measurements using power breakout probes or similar lab instrumentation. -
- Experience working with battery-powered consumer products and optimizing for battery life, thermals, and charging performance.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- ABOUT THE ROLE OpenAI is seeking a System Power Engineer to characterize, measure, and optimize power consumption across our embedded hardware products.
- In this role, you will work closely with Electrical Engineering and system software teams to build power test automation, measure subsystem-level power usage, and drive improvements that directly impact battery life, thermal behavior, charging performance, and system reliability.
- You will help establish the methodologies and metrics used to understand and improve power efficiency across real-world product experiences, from controlled lab environments to representative day-in-the-life usage scenarios.
- We use a hybrid work model of four days per week in the office and one day working remotely.
- Relocation assistance is available for new hires. IN THIS ROLE,
- YOU WILL: - Define and develop power testing automation to evaluate system behavior across a range of workloads and operating conditions.
- - Measure subsystem-level power consumption using power breakout probes and other lab instrumentation.
- - Partner closely with Electrical Engineers to identify opportunities to improve system power efficiency.
- Experience measuring and optimizing power consumption on embedded hardware platforms. - Demonstrated
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Electrical Engineering, embedded software, systems, and product teams. -