At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
About OpenAI
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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About the role
- OpenAI is seeking a SoC Engineer to help architect, design, and integrate first-party AI accelerators.
- This role combines architectural judgment with hands-on implementation across processors, interconnects, I/O, and platform infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement SoC architectures spanning embedded processors, AMBA interconnects, peripheral subsystems, PCI Express, Ethernet and die-to-die interfaces.
- Develop the microarchitecture and RTL design of subsystems supporting I/O and SoC functionality.
- Integrate Arm Cortex-M and Cortex-A processors, AXI/APB fabrics, and third-party controller IP, including the RTL and glue logic needed to connect these components.
- Develop reset and boot architectures, working with firmware and software teams to define sequencing, initialization, and survivability behavior.
- Incorporate debug, test, and security requirements into the SoC architecture and implementation, partnering with other silicon designers to make the silicon observable, testable, and secure.
- Drive PCIe and other I/O integration, including controller and PHY interfaces, high-speed SerDes, and die-to-die connectivity.
- Contribute to power management and security architecture and design.
- Work directly with third-party IP vendors to define technical requirements, evaluate IP capabilities, coordinate deliverables, and resolve issues from integration through silicon bring-up.
- Work across architecture, design, verification, physical design, and software teams to define interfaces, resolve integration issues, and carry designs through pre-silicon validation and post-silicon bring-up.
- Build and apply automation and AI-assisted tools to accelerate design, IP integration, consistency checking, and debugging while maintaining engineering quality.
Skills
- Verilog
- SystemVerilog
- Arm Cortex-M
- AXI
- APB
- PCI Express
- Ethernet
- SerDes
