Software Engineer, AI for Chips - Research Infra

Faangapply; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer to build the research infrastructure and tooling that help OpenAI models design silicon. You’ll turn chip-design workflows into reliable environments for reinforcement learning and evaluation, enabling researchers to run experiments efficiently.

You will move between software engineering, tool integration, and open research problems, collaborating with researchers and engineers to turn successful experiments into reusable systems and training workflows.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to design, implement, and debug reliable software systems.
• Experience collaborating with researchers and engineers.
• Comfort with turning open-ended problems into working software.
• Interest in reinforcement learning and chip-design workflows.
• Ability to learn domain alongside hardware specialists.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure for reinforcement learning environments, evaluations, and long-running experiments.
• Integrate electronic design automation (EDA) tools into workflows for RTL generation, verification, and physical design optimization.
• Improve experiment reliability, reproducibility, observability, and performance; debug failures across tools, services, and infrastructure.
• Develop tooling and model harnesses that let researchers test ideas quickly and measure correctness and power, performance, and area (PPA).
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to turn successful experiments into reusable systems and training workflows.
• Own ambiguous projects end to end, communicate progress, and use results to guide the next iteration.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Cross-stack debugging

Independent project delivery

Research collaboration

Reinforcement learning interest

Tools

Python

Containerized tools

Reproducible environments

RTL/Verilog/SystemVerilog

EDA tools

Job description

OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer to build the research infrastructure and tooling that help OpenAI models design silicon. You’ll turn chip-design workflows into reliable environments for reinforcement learning and evaluation, enabling researchers to run experiments efficiently.

You will move between software engineering, tool integration, and open research problems, collaborating with researchers and engineers to turn successful experiments into reusable systems and training workflows.