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Forward Deployed Engineer - Semiconductor

OpenAI

2 days ago

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HybridFull-timeSenior

Summary

OpenAI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer - Semiconductor to join their team in San Francisco, CA. The role involves leading end-to-end deployments of OpenAI's models within semiconductor and chip design organizations.

About the Role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work closely with customers who are experts in hardware architecture, RTL, verification, and performance engineering. Your responsibilities will include designing and shipping production AI systems, delivering AI-powered verification workflows, and defining evaluation loops to measure model and system quality. You will also be responsible for distilling deployment learnings into reusable tooling and insights that inform future product direction.

About You

Required:

5+ years of engineering experience in chip design, verification, EDA, or FPGA development.
Experience with RTL, verification environments, simulators, or large-scale performance/debug tooling.
Proficiency in writing and reviewing production-grade code in Python and/or systems-adjacent languages.

Preferred:

Experience deploying or experimenting with LLM-powered systems.
Strong communication skills to translate technical trade-offs into delivery decisions.
Ability to apply systems thinking with high execution standards.

Benefits

Relocation assistance offered.
Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week.
Travel up to 50% required.

OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

San Francisco, CA