The opportunity
OpenAI’s Physical Engineering work explores how frontier AI can help people design, simulate, and build better physical products. We work directly with customers to identify high-value engineering applications that shorten development cycles, improve product performance, and create measurable business value.
What you'll do
Lead discovery and workshops with customer engineering teams and senior: leaders to identify high-value design and simulation use cases
Develop promising use cases into significant projects with FDE and account: teams, forming clear hypotheses about value, feasibility, engineering constraints, and adoption
Work alongside FDEs and customer teams through delivery, bringing practical: engineering context, surfacing risks early, and helping projects achieve measurable outcomes
Explain how AI can improve physical-product engineering, grounded in real: experience with CAD, simulation, engineering workflows, and design tradeoffs
Build customer confidence through clear technical storytelling, compelling: use cases, and credible engineering judgment
Maintain a clear operating cadence across priority projects, with explicit: owners, risks, decisions, and success measures
What they're looking for
- Turn customer insights into reusable discovery methods, FDE guidance, product: feedback, and recommendations for our product, go-to-market, and partnership strategies
- Build relationships across physical-product engineering teams and the broader design and simulation ecosystem
- Move fluidly between executive conversations, technical working sessions,: analysis, writing, and delivery follow-through
- Firsthand experience designing or building physical products, including: substantial hands-on work with CAD, simulation, or related engineering tools
