The Forward Deployed Engineering team at OpenAI is seeking a highly skilled Physical Design Engineer to join their semiconductor-focused team. This role will begin with a strong emphasis on physical design expertise and technical judgment, with the expectation to grow into a broader Forward Deployed Engineering role over time.
Requirements
- Serve as the physical design SME for semiconductor customer engagements
- Partner with FDEs during customer discovery and scoping to translate ambiguous pain points into clear solution hypotheses, success criteria, and technical plans
- Support customer-facing technical conversations as a trusted advisor, engaging credibly with technical leaders
- Help shape AI-assisted solutions across physical design workflows, including floorplanning, place and route, clocking, timing closure, congestion, power, physical verification, and signoff
- Guide feasibility and integration decisions across the entire chip design lifecycle: design, verification, and physical design
- Partner with FDEs and customer SMEs to curate evaluation datasets, golden tasks, rubrics, and acceptance criteria for physical design use cases
- Build or guide lightweight prototypes, benchmarks, methodology experiments, and internal tools that validate opportunities and accelerate solution development
- Educate and mentor the broader FDE team on physical design concepts, implementation flows, EDA tooling, and key trade-offs
- Surface repeated customer signal to Product and Research to help shape roadmap, model behavior, and platform capabilities for semiconductor use cases
- Progressively take on broader FDE responsibilities, including customer discovery, solution architecture, prototype development, production deployment, and ownership of technical workstreams
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
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