Silicon Design Lead (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid

Salary: $287K–$485K annually plus equity

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing products and systems intended to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits humanity.

What you will do

• Own architecture, microarchitecture, implementation, integration, and validation of silicon IP and subsystems for AI hardware platforms.
• Define hardware interfaces, data flows, and microarchitectural tradeoffs against functional, performance, power, and area requirements.
• Translate security architecture, requirements, and threat models into implementable hardware capabilities in partnership with the Security team.
• Design and integrate encryption, key management, access controls, isolation, and data protection across silicon subsystems.
• Review RTL implementations and collaborate with silicon architecture, verification, firmware, and software teams on subsystem execution.
• Evaluate existing and third-party IP, identify gaps, and drive solutions across subsystem boundaries.

Requirements

• Strong experience in silicon IP or subsystem-level architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation.
• Experience owning hardware IP or subsystem designs from architectural 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, interfaces, and microarchitectural specifications.
• Working knowledge of RTL design and coding proficiency in Verilog or SystemVerilog, including the ability to read, review, and contribute to RTL.
• Ability to evaluate performance, power, area, and complexity tradeoffs across silicon designs.
• Ability to work across security, silicon architecture, RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams from concept through execution.
• Candidates may need to meet certain legal status requirements under U.S. export control laws and regulations.

Nice to have

• Broader SoC-level architecture or integration experience; deep IP or subsystem-level expertise is sufficient.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in San Francisco.
• Full-time employment with equity included in the compensation package.
• Commitment to safety, inclusion, equal opportunity, reasonable accommodations, and compliance with applicable employment laws.
• Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.