Design Verification Engineer

OpenAI; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Reasonable accommodations for disabilities

Job summary

A leading AI research organization in Los Angeles is seeking a Design Verification Engineer to verify cutting-edge ML accelerators. You will be responsible for ensuring functional correctness in complex hardware systems, ranging from individual IP blocks to full SoC functionality. The ideal candidate has a BS/MS in EE/CE/CS, 3+ years of verification experience, and is proficient in SystemVerilog and UVM. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to advanced AI hardware development in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in hardware verification.
• Proven success verifying complex IP or SoC designs.
• Experience in fast-paced, cross-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the verification of custom IP blocks or SoC functionality.
• Develop constrained-random and system-level testbenches.
• Drive bug triage and work with design teams on resolution.

Skills

SystemVerilog

UVM

Debug tools

Computer architecture

Performance modeling

Education

BS/MS in EE/CE/CS or equivalent

Tools

VCS

Questa

Verdi

Job description

OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI-native silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering production-grade silicon for OpenAI’s supercomputing infrastructure, the team also creates custom design tools and methodologies that accelerate innovation and enable hardware optimized specifically for AI.

About the Role

OpenAI is developing custom silicon to power the next generation of frontier AI models. We’re looking for experienced Design Verification (DV) Engineers to ensure functional correctness and robust design for our cutting‑edge ML accelerators. You will play a key role in verifying complex hardware systems—ranging from individual IP blocks to subsystems and full SoC—working closely with architecture, RTL, software, and systems teams to deliver reliable silicon at scale.

In this role you will:

• Own the verification of one or more of: custom IP blocks, subsystems (compute, interconnect, memory, etc.), or full‑chip SoC‑level functionality.
• Define verification plans based on architecture and microarchitecture specs.
• Develop constrained‑random, directed, and system‑level testbenches using SystemVerilog/UVM or equivalent methodologies.
• Build and maintain stimulus generators, checkers, monitors, and scoreboards to ensure high coverage and correctness.
• Drive bug triage, root cause analysis, and work closely with design teams on resolution.
• Contribute to regression infrastructure, coverage analysis, and closure for both block‑ and top‑level environments.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• BS/MS in EE/CE/CS or equivalent with 3+ years of experience in hardware verification.
• Proven success verifying complex IP or SoC designs in industry‑standard flows.
• Proficient in SystemVerilog, UVM, and common simulation and debug tools (e.g., VCS, Questa, Verdi).
• Strong knowledge of computer architecture concepts, memory and cache systems, coherency, interconnects, and/or ML compute primitives.
• Familiarity with performance modeling, formal verification, or emulation is a plus.
• Experience working in fast‑paced, cross‑disciplinary teams with a passion for building reliable hardware.

To comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and 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.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US‑based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non‑public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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