Physical Design Engineer

About the Team
OpenAIs Hardware team designs the custom silicon that powers the worlds most advanced AI systems. From system-level architecture to custom circuit implementations we partner closely with model and infrastructure teams to deliver performance power and efficiency breakthroughs across all layers of the stack.

About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Silicon Implementation Engineer with deep expertise in physical design and methodology. This individual contributor role sits within our physical design team and is central to delivering power performance and area (PPA) optimized datapath and interconnect solutions for next-generation AI accelerators.

Youll work closely with RTL designers to define and execute on physical design strategies. You will develop tools flows and methodologies to increase team productivity. Your work will directly impact silicons performance and cost efficiency as well as the teams execution velocity and quality.

In this role you will:

• Develop build and own tools flows and methodologies for physical implementation

• Own physical implementation of floorplan blocks from floorplanning to final signoff

• Collaborate with RTL designers to drive optimal block implementation solutions

• Analyze and optimize design for timing power and area trade-offs working in collaboration with EDA vendors and ASIC partners

Qualifications:

• BS w/ 4 or MS with 2 years or PhD with 0-1 year(s) of relevant industry experience in physical design and methodology development

• Demonstrated success in taping out complex silicon designs

• Hands-on experience with block physical implementation and PPA convergence

• Strong coding experience with python bazel TCL

• Strong experience building physical design tools flows and methodologies

• Strong understanding of microarchitecture RTL design physical design circuit design physical verification and timing closure.

• Deep familiarity with industry-standard tools and flows for physical synthesis PNR LEC and power estimation

Bonus:

• Experience with AI or HPC-focused chips

• Experience with optimizing PPA for high performance compute cores

• Hands-on experience with top-level design methodologies

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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