Deployment Lead, Semiconductors- SF

Highlights

• Drive AI deployments across RTL design, verification and physical implementation.
• Own delivery end-to-end from 0→1 prototypes to scaled production systems.
• Shape how OpenAI engages semiconductor customers and guides product roadmap.

What they offer

• Relocation assistance
• Equity

Ideal candidate

A customer-obsessed delivery leader with 7+ years owning complex technical programs who thrives in ambiguity, takes extreme ownership, and loves embedding onsite to turn prototypes into adopted production systems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership
• Deep expertise in semiconductor workflows including RTL design, verification, EDA tooling and physical implementation
• Track record leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements, ideally involving AI
• Excel in high ambiguity environments and simplifying complex dynamic work
• Ability to move between system-level understanding and execution-level detail to ship systems
• Strong technical fluency with sharp sequencing instincts and architecture trade-offs
• Experience shipping AI/LLM systems including integration and production pitfalls
• Executive presence translating technical trade-offs for business leaders into execution
• Willingness to travel onsite with customers 25-50%, sometimes higher