Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• 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 will 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 will track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale.
• You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities.
• Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows.
• Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures).
• This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role.
• Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace.
• In this role, you will:
• 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.
• You might thrive in this role if you:
• 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.
• You’re a translator with executive presence.
• Enjoy being onsite with customers to accelerate delivery.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of customer‑facing technical delivery leadership.
• 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.
• You’re a translator with executive presence.
• Enjoy being onsite with customers to accelerate delivery.

🏖️ Benefits

• Relocation assistance.
• Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
• Travel between 25-50% is required.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technology.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

🏙️ Location

• San Francisco.
• OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
• For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.
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• Technical Deployment Lead
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• The job title and description clearly indicate that the role is focused on technical deployment and engineering, making Engineering the most appropriate category.
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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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