Reliability/DFX Engineer

About this role

OpenAI seeks an experienced Reliability/DFX Engineer to design and implement design-for-excellence features in next-generation AI accelerator chips. This cross-stack role bridges chip design, platform architecture, and hardware health teams to architect reliable systems from concept through high-volume production.

What you'll do

• Oversee DFX architecture, implementation, and deployment in silicon, proposing high-ROI features for reliability and fault tolerance
• Build system-level reliability models using empirical data to guide organizational DFX strategy
• Collaborate with chip and platform teams to implement DFX features including digital/mixed-signal IP and firmware
• Partner with hardware health teams to improve reliability in new product introduction and high-volume manufacturing phases
• Drive data-driven improvements through experimental design and analysis across the hardware stack
• Serve as DFX/reliability advocate to align industry ecosystem with OpenAI's requirements

What they're looking for

• RTL design and design-for-test (DFT)
• Reliability modeling and empirical data analysis
• ML chip and platform architecture understanding
• Physical implementation or silicon ATE experience
• System-level hardware design
• ML workload characterization
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Problem-solving at scale