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Software Engineer, AI for Chip Design

OpenAI · San Francisco

Posted Sep 8, 2026 · full time

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ABOUT THE TEAM

OpenAI develops models that can reason through complex problems and hardware designed for the demands of advanced AI. AI for Chips connects these efforts: applying increasingly capable AI systems to the work of semiconductor engineering.

Our goal is to help engineers develop better chips and shorten design cycles. This work brings research, model training, and hardware expertise together to build tools that engineers can use on real designs, with correctness and measurable performance at the center.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re hiring a Software Engineer to build the research infrastructure and tooling that help OpenAI models design silicon. You’ll turn chip-design workflows into reliable environments for reinforcement learning and evaluation, and make it easier for researchers to run experiments and iterate on new ideas.

You’ll move between software engineering, tool integration, and open research problems. We value strong coding fundamentals, clear technical judgment, and independent execution. Prior chip-design experience is helpful, but you can learn the domain alongside the team’s hardware specialists.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

- Build and maintain infrastructure for reinforcement learning environments, evaluations, and long-running experiments.

- Integrate electronic design automation (EDA) tools into workflows for RTL generation, verification, and physical design optimization. …

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