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OpenAI's Consumer Devices team is building end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world. Within this group, the Hardware Engineering eXperience (HEX) team is a new bootstrapped organization building the environments, applications, compute, product-data systems, and workflows that enable hardware engineers to work efficiently without troubleshooting underlying infrastructure.
As a Staff PLM & Engineering Applications Engineer, you will be one of the first technical builders of HEX and the primary technical counterpart to the HEX lead. You will own the engineering-application and product-data side of the hardware engineering experience, with initial focus on NX, Teamcenter, licensing, parts import, integrations, packaging, validation, and user workflows.
This is not a traditional Teamcenter administration or Corporate IT support role. You will take complex, fragile workflows and transform them into reliable engineering systems. The role is highly hands-on and systems-oriented, building a fresh environment from the ground up rather than inheriting a mature one.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own 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 understand workflow pain points
- Work with Compute & Infrastructure-focused HEX Engineers to ensure applications, product data, storage, VDI, HPC, and licenses feel like one coherent system
- Partner with contractors and vendors while keeping architecture, requirements, validation, acceptance, and long-term ownership inside HEX
- Build health checks, regression tests, observability, diagnostics, and support tooling that make failures easy to detect and recover from
- Help establish technical standards, operating model, and engineering culture for the growing HEX organization
You will thrive in this role if you have deep hands-on experience with Teamcenter, NX, PLM systems, and CAD workflows in hardware product-development environments; have owned PLM architecture, data models, integrations, migrations, parts imports, and release workflows; can write automation in Python, PowerShell, Bash, and similar tools; have experience with packaging, deployment, licensing, validation, and application integrations; understand parts, revisions, BOMs, configurations, lifecycle states, and change workflows; can debug across applications, infrastructure, licenses, VDI, networking, storage, compute, and product data; prefer building durable tooling and automation over managing ticket queues; and are comfortable in a new bootstrapped team where environment, standards, workflows, and operating model are still being built.
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum Qualifications:
- 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
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
