Job Overview
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineer
Date Posted
August 8, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • Develop and scale design methodologies for rapid first-party chip development and apply them to construct complex custom chips.
- • Create abstractions that allow hardware structures, configurations, experiments, and results to be represented consistently across tools.
- • Automate high-value engineering workflows and improve their reproducibility, observability, testability, and ease of use.
- • Partner with architects, RTL designers, verification engineers, compiler engineers, and systems software engineers to gather requirements and then implement solutions.
- • Use methodology and tooling to identify design risks early, accelerate iteration, and improve confidence in performance and implementation tradeoffs.
- • Contribute across multiple aspects of software and hardware development as the first-party silicon program and its development methodology evolve.
🎯 Requirements
- • Strong software engineering skills in C++, Python, Rust, or similar systems-oriented languages.
- • Experience building engineering infrastructure, developer tools, simulation frameworks, EDA/CAD tooling, compilers, or verification systems.
- • Understanding of digital design and computer architecture well enough to translate silicon-development needs into useful software abstractions.
- • Experience integrating RTL and IP components into an SoC.
- • Ability to reason across architecture, design, verification, performance modeling, and software boundaries.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive salary and benefits package.
- • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI hardware and software projects.
- • Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
- • Professional development and growth opportunities.
📍 Location
- • San Francisco
- • United States
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About OpenAI, Inc.
OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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