Signal Integrity Engineer

Futureshaper.com; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a signal integrity system design engineer to join its Compute team in San Francisco. You will work at the intersection of AI and hardware system design, developing innovative solutions for data center applications. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in high-speed system design and a collaborative mindset. This hybrid position offers flexibility with relocation assistance.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in hardware system design.
• Strong system-level design expertise required.
• Proactive approach to problem-solving is essential.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on developing innovative interconnect and high-speed solutions.
• Conduct simulations and modeling to address SI challenges.
• Lead interconnect design and system bring-up.

Skills

Signal Integrity

System Design

High-Speed Interfaces

Power Integrity

Tools

PCB Design

Connector Design

Cable Design

Job description

The Compute team designs advanced AI systems, working across workload modeling and hardware co-design. We collaborate closely with partners to integrate system and data center design and are seeking engineers to help create solutions for data center applications. This team works with partners to optimize hardware for AI workloads, evaluate emerging technologies, and bring hardware platforms into production. If you’re excited to work at the intersection of deep learning and large-scale system design, this role is for you!

About the Role

We’re looking for signal integrity (SI) system design engineers with deep expertise in SI and strong system-level design experience. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We follow a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

Collaborate with hardware, system, and design partners to develop innovative interconnect and high-speed solutions.

Identify and evaluate new technologies and methods to enhance signal and power integrity in product design.

Conduct simulations and modeling to address SI challenges.

Lead interconnect design, system bring-up, and qualification.

Contribute to shaping technology roadmaps in collaboration with partners.

You might thrive in this role if you:

Have at least 10 years of experience in hardware system design, including work on high-speed interfaces.

Bring a proactive, solution-oriented approach to challenges.

Have experience across board level and system-level SI design.

Are familiar with PCB, connector, and cable design.

Are driven to continuously learn and share knowledge with teammates.

Can navigate ambiguity and fast-evolving environments effectively.

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.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link .

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.