Staff PLM & Engineering Applications Engineer, Consumer Devices

Details

The Consumer Devices team builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. The Hardware Engineering eXperience (HEX) team builds the environments, applications, compute, product-data systems, and workflows that enable hardware engineers to work efficiently.

HEX owns virtual engineering environments, HPC/GPU compute, storage, networking, licensing, MCAD/ECAD/CAE applications, PLM, product data, automation, validation, and support as one connected system.

This role is one of the first technical builder positions on the HEX team and focuses on the engineering-application and product-data side of the hardware engineering experience, initially covering NX, Teamcenter, licensing, parts import, integrations, packaging, validation, and user workflows. The role involves building reliable engineering systems rather than performing traditional Teamcenter administration or corporate IT application support.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture, deployment, configuration, integration, validation, and long-term operation of NX and Teamcenter.
• Build reliable workflows for parts import, product-data migration, metadata quality, BOMs, revisions, lifecycle states, and release processes.
• Replace manual setup documentation with automated installation, configuration, validation, diagnostics, and recovery workflows.
• Build tooling around NX, Teamcenter, MCAD, ECAD, CAE, plugins, licenses, and engineering environments.
• Define and validate the golden path for hardware engineers: access, open, design, save, retrieve, release, simulate, and get help.
• Partner with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, simulation, manufacturing, systems, and product-design teams to identify workflow issues.
• Work with Compute & Infrastructure-focused HEX engineers so applications, product data, storage, VDI, HPC, and licenses operate as one coherent system.
• Partner with contractors and vendors while retaining architecture, requirements, validation, acceptance, and long-term ownership within HEX.
• Build health checks, regression tests, observability, diagnostics, and support tooling to make failures easy to detect and recover from.
• Help establish technical standards, the operating model, and the engineering culture for the growing HEX organization.

Requirements

• Deep hands-on experience with Teamcenter, NX, PLM systems, and CAD workflows in a hardware product-development environment.
• Experience owning PLM architecture, data models, integrations, migrations, parts imports, release workflows, and engineering application platforms.
• Ability to write automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and similar tools.
• Experience with packaging, deployment, licensing, validation, and application integrations.
• Understanding of parts, revisions, BOMs, configurations, lifecycle states, and change workflows.
• Ability to debug across applications, infrastructure, licenses, VDI, networking, storage, compute, and product data.
• Experience with Teamcenter Active Workspace, BMIDE, ITK, SOA/REST, and Teamcenter customization.
• Experience with NX Open, managed mode, customer defaults, templates, licensing, packaging, and upgrades.
• Comfortable working in a new bootstrapped team where the environment, standards, workflows, and operating model are still being built.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PLM migrations, legacy part imports, data cleanup, ERP integrations, and ECAD integrations.
• Experience with MCAD, ECAD, CAE/FEA, HPC, VDI/AVD, GPU workstations, and engineering storage.
• Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, infrastructure automation, and self-service systems.
• Experience in complex hardware-development environments, including consumer devices, robotics, automotive, aerospace, or embedded systems.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $257,000–$285,000 per year, plus equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax FSA, dependent care FSA, and commuter accounts.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer committed to reasonable accommodations and consideration of qualified applicants in accordance with applicable law.