EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure Engineer

Hardware - San Francisco

About the Team

OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeñoant, efficient, and scalable hardware solutions.

The Silicon & Systems team brings together hardware and software engineers to co-design and build the next generation of AI infrastructure. We operate at the intersection of silicon, systems, and software, tackling complex technical challenges across the full hardware development lifecycle, from early architecture and design through validation, deployment, and production.

About the Role

We’re looking for an Infrastructure Software Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure and developer workflows that power OpenAI’s custom silicon development. You’ll work closely with engineering teams across design verificational verification, and systems software to develop reliable, automated, and efficient workflows that accelerate hardware development.

In this roles that support our silicon engineering teams. You'll translate complex hardware development requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions, reducing manual overhead, improving reliability, and enabling engineers to iterate faster.

This is a highly collaborative.

In this role, you will:

• Build developer tools and workflows: Partner with hardware engineering teams to understand their development processes, identify bottlenecks, and build tooling, services, and APIs that automate workflows and accelerate engineering productivity.
• Develop and scale regression infrastructure: Designance, reliability, and reproducibility.
• Own CI/CD infrastructure: Build and maintain automated pipelines for infrastructure, developer tooling, and cluster configurations, enabling safe deployments, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Scale cloud and HPC environments: Designance compute clusters, optimizing scheduling, capacity, reliability, and cost efficiency to support demanding silicon development workloads.
• Build data infrastructure and observability: Develop data pipelines, databases, and monitoring systems that provide visibility into regression results, infrastructure health, resource utilization, and engineering efficiency.
• Drive platform reliability and operational excellence: Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, improve monitoring and alerting, automate recovery processes, and build systems that are resilient, maintainable, and scalable.
• Collaborate across hardware and software teams: Work directly with engineers across RTL, verification, physical design, emulation, and software to continuously improve the infrastructure supporting OpenAI's silicon development.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have strong software engineering fundamentals, with proficiency in Python or a similar programming language and experience building reliable automation, tools, or infrastructure services.
• Bring deep technical expertise in at least one area of infrastructure engineering, such as Linux/HPC environments, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, storage, networking, or EDA development workflows.
• Have experience designing or Bicep.
• Have strong Linux systems knowledgeance troubleshooting, and system administration.
• Have experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkinss.
• Are comfortable debugging complex distributed infrastructure problems, identifying root causes, and implementing durable solutions.
• Enjoy working closely with engineering teams to understand technical requirements and translate them into scalable, practical infrastructure solutions.
• Take ownership of systems end to end, from initial design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing operational improvements.
• Bring strong technical judgment, clear communication, and a collaborative approach to solving ambiguous engineering challenges.
• Are curious about hardware development and excited to expand your technical expertise across infrastructure, silicon design workflows, and developer productivity.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience supporting ASIC or semiconductor development environmentsal verification.
• Experience operating large-scale HPC clusters or workload schedulers such as Slurm.
• Familiarity with compute farms, regression frameworks, build systems, and hardware development toolchains.
• Experience with enterprise identity and authentication systems, such as Entra ID, OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, or SSSD.
• Experience designing and operating relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design, migrations, query optimization, and backups.
• Familiarity with distributed systems components, including message queues, caching layers, artifact storage, and backend services.
• Experience with high-performance storage systems, data movement optimization, or large-scale compute infrastructure.
• Experience managing EDA license servers, license utilization, or other shared infrastructure resources in hardware development environments.

To comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations.

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 the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$287K – $485K + Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.