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About the role
We’re looking for an Infrastructure Software Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure and developer workflows that power OpenAI’s custom silicon development. You’ll work closely with engineering teams across design verification, physical design, emulation, formal verification, and systems software to develop reliable, automated, and efficient workflows that accelerate hardware development. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience supporting ASIC or semiconductor development environments, including EDA workflows, design verification, physical design, emulation, or formal verification
- Experience operating large-scale HPC clusters or workload schedulers such as Slurm
- Familiarity with compute farms, regression frameworks, build systems, and hardware development toolchains
- Experience with enterprise identity and authentication systems, such as Entra ID, OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, or SSSD
- Experience designing and operating relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design, migrations, query optimization, and backups
- Familiarity with distributed systems components, including message queues, caching layers, artifact storage, and backend services
More about this role
OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, our custom silicon program, the team works across silicon architecture, RTL design, verification, physical design, systems software, and infrastructure to deliver highly performant, efficient, and scalable hardware solutions.
The Silicon & Systems team brings together hardware and software engineers to co-design and build the next generation of AI infrastructure. We operate at the intersection of silicon, systems, and software, tackling complex technical challenges across the full hardware development lifecycle, from early architecture and design through validation, deployment, and production.
We’re looking for an Infrastructure Software Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure and developer workflows that power OpenAI’s custom silicon development. You’ll work closely with engineering teams across design verification, physical design, emulation, formal verification, and systems software to develop reliable, automated, and efficient workflows that accelerate hardware development.
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