OpenAI
SoC Engineer
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About the role
- This role combines architectural judgment with hands-on implementation.
- You should enjoy stretching across domains, rolling up your sleeves, and doing the work needed to make a complex system function end to end.
- Integrate Arm Cortex-M and Cortex-A processors, AXI/APB fabrics, and third-party controller IP, including the RTL and glue logic needed to connect these components.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement SoC architectures spanning embedded processors, AMBA interconnects, peripheral subsystems, PCI Express, Ethernet and die-to-die interfaces.
- Develop the microarchitecture and RTL design of subsystems supporting I/O and SoC functionality.
- Develop reset and boot architectures, working with firmware and software teams to define sequencing, initialization, and survivability behavior.
- Drive PCIe and other I/O integration, including controller and PHY interfaces, high-speed SerDes, and die-to-die connectivity.
- Contribute to power management and security architecture and design.
- Work across architecture, design, verification, physical design, and software teams to define interfaces, resolve integration issues, and carry designs through pre-silicon validation and post-silicon bring-up.
- Build and apply automation and AI-assisted tools to accelerate design, IP integration, consistency checking, and debugging while maintaining engineering quality.
- Have experience in SoC architecture, RTL design, and subsystem or full-chip integration, with hands-on ownership through implementation and silicon bring-up.
Company info
- OpenAI's Hardware organization develops custom silicon and systems for advanced AI workloads.
- Our first-party accelerator team works across chip architecture, design, software, and systems to build the computing platforms that power frontier models.
- We are a small, dynamic team that values technical breadth, hands-on engineering, and creative approaches to building complex hardware.
Visa & Work Authorization
- export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations
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