# EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure Engineer at OpenAI

- Company: OpenAI
- What the company does: Backed by Greylock, Insight and Khosla.
- Company website: https://openai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $287K to $485K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-03
- Apply by: 2026-12-18
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/4f2d9849-ad00-48d5-a22f-0cb943723999?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openai-eda-cloud-and-developer-infrastructure-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Scaling

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