Hardware Tools Engineer

OpenAI · Scaling

Location: San Francisco, California, United States · Remote
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Hybrid
Level: Unspecified
Type: Full-time
Pay: $225K–$445K/yr (published by employer)
Posted: 8 months ago
Source: Ashby

What the posting covers

About the Team

OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated…

About the Role

You will develop and evolve the tooling ecosystem that hardware engineers rely on every day — from hardware compilers and IR transformations to simulation, debugging, and automation infrastructure. The work spans software engineering, compiler concepts, and…

In this role you will

Build and improve the software tooling that makes hardware teams faster: compilation, IR transforms, RTL generation, simulation, debug, and automation. Extend and integrate hardware compiler stacks (frontends, IR passes, lowering, scheduling, codegen to…

You might thrive in this role if

Demonstrated ability to build and maintain software (projects, internships, research, open source, or equivalent experience). Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, debugging, and software design. Proficiency in at least one of Rust, C++, or…

Nice to have skills

Exposure to compiler and hardware toolchains such as XLS/DSLX, LLVM, Chisel/FIRRTL, CIRCT/MLIR, other novel hardware languages (e.g. HardCaml, SpinalHDL, Spade, PyMTL, Clash, BlueSpec, PyRope) Experience with Verilog tooling ecosystems (Yosys/RTLIL,…

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…

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