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 components for their custom AI accelerator, collaborating closely with various 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

• Relocation assistance

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