About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of Silicon Design Lead in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on Nov 4, 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.
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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’re looking for a Silicon Design Lead to drive architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation of key IP and subsystems for our AI hardware platforms. You will translate functional, performance, and security requirements into efficient silicon designs, owning technical decisions from architectural definition through implementation and integration.
Part of this role will focus on hardware security implementation in close partnership with OpenAI’s Security team.