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Mechanical Commissioning Project Engineer

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Mechanical Commissioning Project Engineer is a still-open role at OpenAI on Jobrow. Location: On-site · San Francisco · California · United States. Listed pay: $206k–$327k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 2 months ago; last confirmed 2 months ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.

Pay
$206k–$327k
Workplace
On-site
Location
San Francisco · California · United States
First seen
2 months ago
Last seen
2 months ago
Board
Ashby
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About this role

About the Role The Mechanical Commissioning Project Engineer owns mechanical commissioning planning, readiness, quality coordination, and test execution oversight for the project.

  • Function: Engineering
  • Seniority: mid

Location & pay

On-site · San Francisco · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $206k–$327k.

Source

Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for OpenAI. First seen 2 months ago; last seen 2 months ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.

Posting

About the Role The Mechanical Commissioning Project Engineer owns mechanical commissioning planning, readiness, quality coordination, and test execution oversight for the project. This role ensures mechanical systems are installed, inspected, started, balanced, controlled, and tested in a way that supports reliable integrated facility performance. Reports to the Commissioning Project Lead and partners closely with mechanical contractors, equipment vendors, design/engineering teams, the electrical commissioning lead, controls stakeholders, and vendor field/test engineers. Key Responsibilities - Develop and maintain the mechanical commissioning scope, readiness criteria, inspection strategy, and discipline test execution plan. - Review mechanical design packages, specifications, submittals, method statements, controls narratives, sequence assumptions, and testing requirements for commissionability and risk. - Coordinate mechanical QA/QC inspections with contractors and vendor field/test engineers, including installation checks, pre-functional readiness, deficiency capture, and closeout tracking. - Own mechanical commissioning procedure development and review, including equipment startup, functional testing, controls verification, balancing prerequisites, failure mode validation, and integrated systems testing inputs. - Coordinate with equipment vendors on factory/site acceptance requirements, startup support, test prerequisites, documentation packages, and vendor participation during critical tests. - Support readiness and execution for cooling, ventilation, hydronic, pumping, heat rejection, controls, and other project-specific mechanical systems. - Lead discipline-level review of mechanical test results, deficiencies, corrective actions, retest requirements, trend logs, and acceptance evidence. - Maintain mechanical commissioning dashboards and status inputs for the Commissioning Project Lead, including risk items, resource needs, test readiness, and issue aging. - Partner with the Electrical Commissioning Lead on cross-discipline dependencies, including power availability, controls integration, emergency modes, heat load scenarios, and integrated testing sequences. - Support turnover by confirming mechanical documentation, as-built evidence, test records, trend data, and outstanding issue disposition are complete and usable by operations. Qualifications - 8+ years of mechanical commissioning, mechanical construction, field engine

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