Lab Operations Manager, Systems Integration | Consumer Devices

About the Team

OpenAI Consumer Devices is building the next generation of products that bring powerful AI into peoples everyday lives. Guided by OpenAIs mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity our team combines world-class researchers engineers designers and operators who care deeply about creating useful intuitive and responsible technology. Youll have the opportunity to work alongside exceptional people on ambitious zero-to-one challenges at the intersection of hardware software and AI. This is a chance to help define an entirely new category of productsand shape how people experience AI in the future.

The Systems Integration team is critical in this mission turning complex hardware-software development into reliable product signals. Lab Operations is the physical backbone of that work: we build and maintain the device fleets test environments and hardware-in-the-loop labs that let teams test repeatably understand failures and ship with confidence.

About the Role

As a Lab Operations Manager Systems Integration you will own the day-to-day operation of a large-scale consumer device test lab. This is a hands-on operations leadership role: youll keep device fleets test rigs lab infrastructure inventory provisioning maintenance and logistics running smoothly so engineers and QA technicians have reliable environments for validation and release testing.

Were looking for someone who is highly organized technically hands-on comfortable with consumer electronics and lab equipment and experienced operating complex physical test environments at scale. Because this is a new category of devices youll have the opportunity to build the lab operating model earlyshaping the systems standards and workflows that support products from prototype through launch.

In this role you will:

• Own device fleet and inventory: Manage configuration deployment tracking lifecycle and accurate asset records for a large fleet of consumer devices and test equipment; coordinate receiving storage checkout shipping transfers spares and secure disposal.

• Operate and maintain the lab: Keep racks benches test rigs cabling power networking peripherals and shared equipment reliable and organized; diagnose issues and coordinate repairs replacements and preventive maintenance.

• Prepare devices for testing: Flash provision reset configure label and assign devices to test environments.

• Support testing and diagnostics: Partner with engineering and QA on large-scale test automation setups failure reproduction diagnostics collection log capture and environment resets.

• Plan lab readiness and capacity: Track fleet health rig availability utilization and upcoming test needs; identify constraints before they block testing.

• Partner across teams: Work with hardware systems QA reliability IT and infrastructure teams to keep the lab ready for development and release activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven track-record of operating or supporting a hardware electronics reliability manufacturing or QA test lab.

• Hands-on experience managing fleets of consumer electronics embedded devices prototypes or connected hardware.

• Comfortable setting up configuring troubleshooting and maintaining devices test rigs networking power systems and peripherals across USB Wi-Fi Ethernet Bluetooth power and device connectivity.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have strong organizational skills and can manage competing requests while keeping inventory asset tracking maintenance records lab logistics and shared spaces documented and operational.

• Are comfortable following technical procedures for provisioning firmware installation resets diagnostics collection and test setup.

• Communicate clearly with engineers QA teams vendors and technicians and are comfortable escalating issues with concise supporting information.

• Enjoy improving the reliability scalability and efficiency of physical lab operations.

• Basic CAD familiarity is a plus.

About OpenAI

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. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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