Software Engineer, AI for Chip Design

Skills

About the Role

You will build the research infrastructure and tooling that help OpenAI models design silicon. You will turn chip-design workflows into reliable environments for reinforcement learning and evaluation, integrate EDA tools, and make it easier for researchers to run experiments. You will move between software engineering, tool integration, and open research problems, and own ambiguous projects end to end.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience designing, implementing, and debugging reliable systems
• Ability to work across a stack and make practical tradeoffs
• Independently delivered substantial software projects
• Comfortable working with researchers on evolving requirements
• Nice to have: research infrastructure, distributed systems, experiment orchestration, or ML tooling
• Nice to have: reinforcement learning, model evaluations, or training workflows
• Nice to have: Python, containerized tools, reproducible environments
• Nice to have: RTL, Verilog/SystemVerilog, EDA tools, formal verification

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure for reinforcement learning environments, evaluations, and long-running experiments
• Integrate 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 to test ideas and measure correctness and PPA
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to turn experiments into reusable systems and training workflows
• Own ambiguous projects end to end and communicate progress

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
• Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents) plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and paid company office closures
• Paid sick or safe time
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
• Equity
• Performance-related bonus