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OpenAI · 1 day ago

RTL & Co-design Engineer (junior)

San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

$250K/yr - $460K/yr

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, memory, and interconnect components for their custom AI accelerator, collaborating closely with various engineering teams to translate AI workloads into efficient hardware structures.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Qualification

RTL designVerilog/SystemVerilogAI/ML hardware co-designHardware design modelsIndustry-standard design toolsPassion for hardware systemsProblem-solving skillsCross-functional collaboration

Required

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

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.

Founded in 2015

San Francisco, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (1)

2024 (1)

2023 (1)

2022 (18)

2021 (10)

2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Total Funding

$79B

Key Investors

The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital

2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B

2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B

2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

Sam Altman

CEO & Co-Founder

Greg Brockman

President, Chairman, & Co-Founder

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