OpenAI

Supplier Quality Engineer

OpenAI

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $380,000 - $460,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Assembly

About the role

  • Define, implement, and manage supplier quality standards, procedures, and expectations aligned with product requirements, regulatory needs, and industry best practices.
  • Evaluate and qualify potential suppliers: perform audits on their processes, capabilities, quality systems, and compliance.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure quality is considered early in the design cycle.
  • Lead failure analysis / root cause investigations for supplier-sourced parts or assemblies; drive corrective actions and preventive plans.
  • Monitor supplier performance via metrics (e.g. yield, defect rates, delivery quality, response times) and drive continuous improvement.
  • Establish and maintain New Product Introduction (NPI) quality control processes: define clear milestones, acceptance criteria, sampling plans, test procedures.
  • Conduct regular supplier audits and site visits (domestic and international) as needed; maintain records and ensure ongoing compliance.
  • Support risk assessment and mitigation related to supplier materials, quality, capacity, or process changes.
  • Collaborate closely with others across the supply chain to ensure quality across all nodes, both upstream and downstream, from the component level through FATP.
  • Aggregate and interpret data from manufacturing, reliability, test, and the field; develop dashboards and analytics that surface trends, defect paretos, DPPM, and top issues in real time. Leverage AI/ML methodologies to the fullest extent.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, or related field.
  • 5-8+ years experience in supplier / external manufacturing quality engineering, preferably in consumer hardware or adjacent industries.
  • Strong experience with failure analysis, root cause determination, corrective/preventive actions.
  • Proficient in statistical quality methodologies: e.g. SPC, capability studies, control charts, sampling plans, FMEA.
  • Experience qualifying suppliers and conducting supplier audits.
  • Familiarity with New Product Introduction processes, design for manufacturability (DFM), test strategies, etc.
  • Excellent communication skills, including working across functions and geographies.
  • Experience working with global suppliers, contract manufacturers (CMs), joint development manufacturers (JDMs), etc. (preferred)
  • Hands-on knowledge of electrical and mechanical subsystems for consumer devices (e.g., PCBs, connectors, sensors, enclosure materials) (preferred)
  • Experience with reliability test standards, accelerated life testing, environmental testing (preferred)
  • Ability/willingness to travel to supplier sites (domestic & international) (preferred)