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.
Tech Stack
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About 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.