# Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors - Texas **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: Austin, Texas **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $176K - $224K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/74dfcc9f-f15b-43cf-bf60-bb03690c238e?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ae8243c7-e12 ## Description ## Compensation The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $176K - $224K per year, with generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits. Benefits include: - Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts - Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) - 401(k) retirement plan with employer match - Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) - Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees - 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible - Relocation support for eligible employees - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided. ## About the Team OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements. ## About the Role As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to Semiconductor customers. You will own how solutions are scoped, built, shipped, and adopted across high-value engineering workflows such as RTL design, verification, and physical implementation. You'll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will focus on the semiconductor vertical to deploy next-generation AI capabilities. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You'll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. ## Responsibilities - Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent work streams, translating customer objectives into a roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria. - Run day-to-day engineering execution by tracking and driving delivery across OpenAI FDE and customer teams. - Embed with Semiconductor customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption. - Shape production deployments that integrate with customer infrastructure, data systems, and engineering toolchains, including export-controlled environments. - Partner with Product and Research so platform components and research work streams land in time to support deployment goals. - Codify solution patterns and evals. - Own value cases and ROI. - Help define how OpenAI engages Semiconductor customers. ## Requirements - Bring 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership. - Have deep expertise in Semiconductor workflows, including RTL design, verification, EDA tooling, and physical implementation. - Track record of successfully leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements where customer outcomes depended on tight coordination and fast decision making, ideally involving AI. - Excel in high ambiguity environments. - Move fluidly between system level understanding and execution level detail. - Think strategically and pattern-match. - Have strong technical fluency and sharp sequencing instincts. - Have shipped AI/LLM systems. ## Skills ### Required - Semiconductor workflows - RTL design - verification - EDA tooling - physical implementation - AI - technical delivery leadership --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/74dfcc9f-f15b-43cf-bf60-bb03690c238e?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)