Software Engineer, Silicon Design Tools

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a software engineer to help build the design methodology, software abstractions, and infrastructure that enable a small silicon team to develop complex chips rapidly and with high confidence. You will turn evolving architecture and design needs into reusable tools and workflows that improve iteration speed, quality, and then apply those tools to help construct world-class silicon.

You’ll work closely across architecture, design, verification, performance modeling, and systems

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills in C++, Python, or Rust for systems programming.
• Experience building engineering infrastructure, developer tools, or simulation frameworks.
• Understanding of digital design and computer architecture to translate silicon-development needs into software abstractions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and scale design methodologies for rapid first-party chip development and apply them to construct complex custom chips
• Create abstractions that allow hardware structures, configurations, experiments, and results to be represented consistently across tools.
• Automate high-value engineering workflows and improve their reproducibility, observability, testability, and ease of use.
• Partner with architects, RTL designers, verification engineers, compiler engineers, and systems software engineers to gather requirements and then implement solutions.
• Use methodology and tooling to identify design risks early, accelerate iteration, and improve confidence in performance and implementation tradeoffs.
• Contribute across multiple aspects of software and hardware development as the first-party silicon program and its development methodology evolve.

Skills

C++

Python

Rust

Systems programming

Tools

EDA tooling

Simulation frameworks

Compilers

Verification systems

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a software engineer to help build the design methodology, software abstractions, and infrastructure that enable a small silicon team to develop complex chips rapidly and with high confidence. You will turn evolving architecture and design needs into reusable tools and workflows that improve iteration speed, quality, and then apply those tools to help construct world-class silicon.

You’ll work closely across architecture, design, verification, performance modeling, and systems