Signal Integrity Engineer

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

A leading AI research firm in San Francisco is seeking experienced signal integrity system design engineers. Responsibilities include leading system signal integrity design for AI supercomputing products and collaborating with multi-disciplinary engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of experience in hardware design, particularly for data center applications, and a strong background in signal integrity issues. The position offers a hybrid work model with relocation assistance.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of industry experience in hardware systems.
• Experience in SerDes testing for data center applications.
• Strong knowledge of system design from chip level to rack level.

Responsibilities

• Lead system signal integrity design for AI supercomputer products.
• Collaborate with various engineering teams to drive system design.
• Perform simulation and modeling to troubleshoot signal integrity issues.
• Lead system interconnect design, bring up, and qualification.

Skills

Signal integrity design

System design knowledge

PCB design

Communication skills

Job description

About the Team

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

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 designing hardware systems 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 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.

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.

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