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Silicon Design Lead

OpenAI San Francisco, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$287K - $485K per year

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Description

OpenAI's Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions. We're looking for a Silicon Design Lead to drive architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation of key IP and subsystems for our AI hardware platforms.

You will translate functional, performance, and security requirements into efficient silicon designs, owning technical decisions from architectural definition through implementation and integration. Part of this role will focus on hardware security implementation in close partnership with OpenAI's Security team.

Responsibilities:

  • Own architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation of silicon IP and subsystems
  • Define hardware interfaces, data flows, and microarchitectural tradeoffs
  • Partner with OpenAI's Security team to translate security architecture and requirements into implementable hardware capabilities
  • Design and integrate hardware security mechanisms
  • Evaluate architectural and implementation tradeoffs
  • Collaborate with silicon architects, RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams

Requirements:

  • Strong experience in silicon IP or subsystem-level architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation
  • Experience implementing hardware security features
  • Working knowledge of RTL design and coding proficiency in Verilog or SystemVerilog
  • Ability to evaluate performance, power, area, and complexity tradeoffs

About OpenAI: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • SoC-level architecture
  • integration experience

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