RTL & Co-design Engineer (junior)
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a RTL Engineer to design and implement key compute, memory, and interconnect components for their custom AI accelerator, collaborating closely with various engineering teams to ensure efficient hardware structures.
Responsibilities
- Produce clean, production-quality microarchitecture and RTL for major accelerator subsystems
- Contribute to architectural studies including performance modeling and feasibility analysis
- Collaborate with software, simulator, and compiler teams to ensure hardware/software co-design and workload fit
- Partner with DV and PD to ensure functional correctness, timing closure, area/power targets, and clean integration
- Build and review performance and functional models to validate design intent
- Participate in design reviews, documentation, and bring-up support across the full silicon lifecycle
Skills
- Graduate-level research or industry experience in computer architecture, AI/ML hardware–software co-design, including workload analysis, dataflow mapping, or accelerator algorithm optimization
- Expertise writing production-quality RTL in Verilog/SystemVerilog, with a track record of delivering complex blocks to tape-out
- Experience developing hardware design models or architectural simulators, ideally for AI/ML or high-performance compute systems
- Familiarity with industry-standard design tools (lint, CDC/RDC, synthesis, STA) and methodologies
- Ability to work cross-functionally with architecture, ML systems, compilers, and verification teams
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think across abstraction layers, from algorithms to circuits
- Passion for building industry-leading massive-scale hardware systems
Benefits
- Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
- Relocation assistance to new employees
- Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link
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