Signal Integrity Engineer

OpenAI; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a senior SI system design engineer to lead signal integrity for AI datacenter hardware. You will collaborate across chip, package, board, rack and system teams to push high-speed interconnect technologies and robust signaling.

The role requires 10+ years of hardware SI experience, SerDes testing, and broad system-design knowledge across chip to rack levels. Relocation assistance is available in a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hardware SI experience in data center environments.
• Experience designing hardware systems from chip to rack.
• Experience with SerDes testing and high-speed interconnects.

Responsibilities

• Lead system signal integrity design for AI datacenter hardware.
• Collaborate with chip, package, boards, rack and system engineers to drive SI tech.
• Identify and evaluate new SI technologies and methodologies for product designs; troubleshoot issues.
• Perform simulations and modeling to identify SI issues and guide resolutions.
• Lead system interconnect design, bring-up and qualification; influence roadmaps.

Skills

Signal Integrity

System design

SerDes testing

PCB design

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI's Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI's supercomputing platform.

About the Role

We're looking for signal integrity (SI) system design engineers who have a deep expertise in the SI area, and hold strong system level design knowledge

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Lead system signal integrity (SI) design for AI supercomputer product in the data center application.
• Collaborate with chip, package, boards, rack and system engineers, design partners to drive system SI design and develop innovative interconnect and high-speed technologies
• Identify and evaluate new technologies and methodologies to improve signal and power integrity in product design, and contribute to the development of new products and technology by providing expertise in signal integrity
• Perform simulation and modeling to identify and troubleshoot signal integrity issues
• Lead system interconnect design, bring up and qualification
• As the scope of the role and team grows, understand and influence roadmaps for hardware partners for our datacenter networks, racks, and buildings.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have at least 10 years of industry experience, including experience design hardware system and SerDes testing for data center applications
• Have a strong bias toward action, and won't take no for an answer.
• Have experience and good knowledge of system design experience in the SI areas, from chip, SerDes, board, rack level
• Have experience with PCB, connector and cable design
• Have a strong intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills; and an equally strong talent for sharing that information clearly and concisely with others.
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions.

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.

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