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Physical Design Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering

San Francisco (Remote)$260k–$302kfulltimemidAdded 2 months ago

About this role

OpenAI seeks a senior Physical Design Engineer to join its Forward Deployed Engineering team, serving as the subject matter expert for semiconductor customer engagements. You'll help teams understand backend implementation workflows, shape AI-assisted solutions for chip design, and progressively grow into broader customer-facing deployment roles.

What you'll do

  • Serve as physical design SME for customer engagements, advising on backend workflows, constraints, and opportunities
  • Partner with FDEs during customer discovery to translate pain points into solution hypotheses and technical plans
  • Support customer conversations as a trusted technical advisor on physical design decisions
  • Shape AI-assisted solutions across floorplanning, place and route, timing closure, power analysis, and signoff
  • Curate evaluation datasets, rubrics, and acceptance criteria for physical design use cases with realistic success metrics
  • Mentor the broader FDE team on physical design concepts, EDA tooling, and key trade-offs

What they're looking for

  • Physical design and backend implementation for complex ASICs and SoCs
  • Floorplanning, place and route, clock tree synthesis, timing closure, and signoff
  • Industry EDA tools (synthesis, PNR, STA, physical verification, power analysis)
  • Understanding of RTL, microarchitecture, verification, and design methodology
  • Strong communication and technical advisory abilities
  • Python, Tcl, or similar scripting and automation
  • Systems thinking across the chip design lifecycle
  • Customer-facing technical engagement
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OpenAI

OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.

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