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Silicon Design Lead

OpenAI · San Francisco

Frontier labremotelead$287k–$485k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead architecture and implementation of key IP for AI-native silicon platforms.
  • Co-design chips and systems to power next-generation frontier models.
  • Translate security threat models into hardware data protection capabilities.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A silicon design leader who has owned IP from concept through integration and thrives at the intersection of performance and security. You enjoy cross-functional collaboration and turning complex requirements into efficient, production-ready hardware.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in silicon IP or subsystem-level architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation
  • Owned hardware IP or subsystem designs from definition through implementation and integration
  • Experience implementing hardware security features such as memory encryption, key management, access controls, isolation, or secure boot
  • Ability to translate functional and security requirements into hardware architectures and microarchitectural specs
  • Working knowledge of RTL design with proficiency in Verilog or SystemVerilog
  • Ability to evaluate performance, power, area, and complexity tradeoffs
  • Ability to collaborate across security, architecture, RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams

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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