OpenAI · 18 hours ago
Hardware Lead
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$400K/yr - $555K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Hardware Lead to drive the technical direction of a specialized team, focusing on improving models' understanding of compute hardware development while also contributing as an individual contributor.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Co-lead and grow small hardware-focused team working on model-driven and hardware co-design
Act as a hands-on technical contributor, designing and implementing hardware abstractions, tools, and evaluation frameworks
Develop and evaluate methods that enable models to reason about hardware architectures, constraints, and tradeoffs
Help define the long-term research roadmap at the intersection of AI models and hardware design
Qualification
Required
Have deep experience in hardware architecture, silicon development, or hardware-software co-design
Are comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor while also leading and mentoring others
Enjoy ambiguous, research-driven problems with medium to long term payoff
Can translate hardware realities to ML concepts (and vice versa)
Are excited about the idea of AI systems meaningfully shaping future compute hardware
Company
OpenAI
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
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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