Software Engineer, AI for Chip Design

OpenAI · Research

Location: San Francisco, California, United States · Remote
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Hybrid
Level: Unspecified
Type: Full-time
Pay: $266K–$468K/yr (published by employer)
Posted: 1 month ago
Source: Ashby

What the posting covers

About the Team

OpenAI develops models that can reason through complex problems and hardware designed for the demands of advanced AI. AI for Chips connects these efforts: applying increasingly capable AI systems to the work of semiconductor engineering. Our goal is to help…

About the Role

We’re hiring a Software Engineer to build the research infrastructure and tooling that help OpenAI models design silicon. You’ll turn chip-design workflows into reliable environments for reinforcement learning and evaluation, and make it easier for…

In this role, you will

Build and maintain infrastructure for reinforcement learning environments, evaluations, and long-running experiments. Integrate electronic design automation (EDA) tools into workflows for RTL generation, verification, and physical design optimization. Improve…

You might thrive in this role if you

Have strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience designing, implementing, and debugging reliable systems. Can work across a stack, investigate unfamiliar failures, and make practical tradeoffs between speed, correctness, and maintainability.…

Nice to have

Experience with research infrastructure, distributed systems, experiment orchestration, or ML tooling. Familiarity with reinforcement learning, model evaluations, or training workflows. Experience with Python, containerized tools, and reproducible development…

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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