Forward Deployed Engineer - Semiconductor
About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with leading semiconductor companies to deploy production-grade AI systems across chip design, verification, and tooling workflows. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, embedding deeply with customers to tra
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Forward Deployed Engineer - Semiconductor at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with leading semiconductor companies to deploy production-grade AI systems across chip design, verification, and tooling workflows. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, embedding deeply with customers to tra
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- Design and ship production AI systems around models, owning integrations with RTL repositories, verification environments, simulators, and internal tooling.
- Lead discovery and scoping from pre-engagement through production rollout, translating ambiguous engineering pain points into hypothesis-driven use cases with measurable outcomes.
- Deliver AI-powered verification workflows such as change-aware test selection, directed test generation, and intelligent regression triage, taking them from prototype to daily production use.
- Build systems that operate over large, evolving codebases and artifacts (RTL, tests, logs, waveforms, traces), where performance, latency, and failure handling shape architecture.
- Define and run evaluation loops that measure model and system quality against workflow-specific benchmarks (e.g., coverage, false positives, debug time, iteration speed).
- Own delivery state across multiple workstreams, making trade-offs between scope, speed, and robustness to protect production impact.
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