We’re looking for a highly autonomous Product Designer to become the first dedicated designer on the Physical Engineering team. You’ll help define this product area from its earliest stages - shaping what we build, how it works, and how design operates within the team.

This is a hands-on, zero-to-one role for someone with a founder’s mindset. You’ll work deeply with engineers and customers to understand complex technical workflows, identify valuable opportunities, and turn emerging AI capabilities into intuitive, trustworthy products. You’ll move between product strategy, interaction design, prototyping, research, and detailed execution, often making decisions with incomplete information.

While your initial focus may be Physical Engineering, your work could extend across Enterprise Verticals as the design function grows. You’ll help establish reusable patterns and a high bar for craft across specialized AI products.

This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Define the product and design vision for AI-powered physical-engineering experiences.

Lead design from customer discovery and early prototyping through detailed execution, launch, and iteration.

Create intuitive interfaces that help engineers understand, inspect, and refine complex designs, simulations, and model outputs.

Work directly with mechanical, electrical, and other physical engineers to understand their tools, constraints, and workflows.

Partner closely with product, engineering, research, data science, and forward-deployed teams to translate emerging AI capabilities into practical products.

Prototype new interaction models for visual, spatial, and technically complex work.

Balance speed and exploration with a high bar for interaction design, visual craft, reliability, and user trust.

Establish foundational design patterns and practices that can scale across Physical Engineering and other enterprise verticals.

Product Designer, Physical Engineering

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OpenAI

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