OpenAI

Software Engineer, AI for Chip Design

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2 months ago

Base Salary

$266k - $468k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain infrastructure for reinforcement learning environments, evaluations, and long-running experiments.
  • Integrate EDA tools into workflows for RTL generation, verification, and physical design optimization.
  • Improve experiment reliability, reproducibility, observability, and performance while debugging failures across tools, services, and infrastructure.
  • Develop tooling and model harnesses for rapid research iteration and measurement of correctness, power, performance, and area.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers to turn successful experiments into reusable systems and training workflows.
  • Own ambiguous projects end to end and use results to guide future iterations.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including experience designing, implementing, and debugging reliable systems.
  • Ability to work across a stack, investigate unfamiliar failures, and make tradeoffs among speed, correctness, and maintainability.
  • Experience independently delivering substantial software projects and explaining technical decisions and their impact.
  • Comfort working with researchers on evolving requirements and open-ended problems.
  • Interest in reinforcement learning and chip-design tools.
  • Commitment to developing safe, beneficial AI.
  • Preferred experience with research infrastructure, distributed systems, experiment orchestration, or ML tooling.
  • Preferred familiarity with reinforcement learning, model evaluations, or training workflows.
  • Preferred experience with Python, containerized tools, and reproducible development environments.
  • Preferred experience with RTL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, EDA tools, formal verification, or chip-design automation.

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About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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