About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of ASIC Firmware Engineer, Modeling in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on Feb 3, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
From the employer's listing (short excerpt)
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 Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for an embedded engineer to help build firmware and associated modeling software for OpenAI’s in house AI accelerator. This role involves designing and developing drivers and functional models for a large array of HW components, writing high throughput and low latency firmware code, investigating bring-up and production issues.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and implement drivers for hardware peripherals, including those related to AI chips.
- Design and implement functional software models to simulate SoC uncore logic and enable FW testing against the model
- Design and implement low-latency and high throughput embedded SW to manage HW resources.