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Software Engineer, AI for Chip Design

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-08 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build research infrastructure and tooling to enable OpenAI models to design silicon chips, focusing on reinforcement learning environments and EDA tool integration.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (AI for chip design)

Builds

Reliable environments for reinforcement learning, evaluation, and long-running experiments for chip design workflows.

Domain

Semiconductor engineering + AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

software engineering fundamentals, system design, debugging, cross-stack investigation, independent execution, translating research problems to software

Preferred skills

research infrastructure, distributed systems, experiment orchestration, ML tooling, reinforcement learning, Python, containerization, RTL, Verilog/SystemVerilog, EDA tools, formal verification, chip-design automation

Technologies

Python, EDA tools, reinforcement learning frameworks, containerization technologies

Responsibilities

Build and maintain infrastructure for reinforcement learning environments and evaluations; Integrate electronic design automation (EDA) tools into workflows; Improve experiment reliability, reproducibility, and observability; Develop tooling and model harnesses for researchers; Collaborate with researchers to turn experiments into reusable systems; Own ambiguous projects end to end

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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