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RTL Design Engineer – Interconnect & Network Datapath

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labremotesenior$225k–$445k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own on- and off-chip communication for a custom AI accelerator platform.
  • Drive scalable fabrics connecting high-bandwidth compute, memory and I/O.
  • Co-design chips and systems powering the next generation of frontier models.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

Hands-on senior silicon owner who thrives on end-to-end delivery from architecture to production silicon. You balance performance, pragmatism and mentorship while sweating quality at scale.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience with recent hands-on ownership of networking or packet-switched interconnect RTL
  • Expertise in Verilog/SystemVerilog for clean, parameterized production-quality RTL
  • Track record owning major RTL blocks from microarchitecture through tape-out and bring-up
  • Experience with routing, arbitration, flow control, QoS, ordering and deadlock avoidance
  • Familiarity with AXI, CHI, CXL, PCIe or Ethernet alongside packet-datapath expertise
  • Familiarity with lint, CDC/RDC, synthesis, formal, STA, power and DFT flows
  • Ability to mentor engineers and collaborate across architecture, verification and physical design

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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