RTL Design Engineer, Networking / NoC at OpenAI · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

We’re looking for an RTL Design Engineer to help design and develop next-generation AI accelerator silicon. In this role, you'll work across architecture, microarchitecture, and RTL implementation, translating complex system and performance requirements into efficient, scalable hardware designs.
You'll collaborate closely with silicon architects, hardware and software engineers, verification, and physical design teams to co-design hardware solutions optimized for demanding AI workloads. This is a hands-on engineering role with opportunities to influence architectural decisions, drive microarchitecture development, and own RTL design from early concept through implementation and integration.
We're particularly interested in engineers with experience in Network-on-Chip (NoC), networking, interconnect architectures, or high-performance data movement, though the role encompasses broader RTL design and hardware co-design challenges.
Design and implement high-performance RTL for next-generation AI accelerator silicon, from microarchitecture definition through implementation and integration.
Collaborate with architecture and software teams to translate system-level requirements into efficient hardware microarchitectures.
Drive hardware/software co-design efforts to optimize performance, power, area, and scalability for AI workloads.
Develop and optimize RTL for complex datapaths, control logic, interconnects, and other critical silicon subsystems.
Evaluate architectural and microarchitectural tradeoffs across bandwidth, latency, throughput, and resource utilization.
Partner with design verification and formal verification teams to ensure functional correctness, develop verification strategies, and debug complex design issues.
Work closely with physical design teams to optimize RTL for synthesis, timing closure, power, and area.
Contribute to architecture reviews, design specifications, and cross-functional discussions to influence future silicon designs.
Support block-level and SoC-level integration, debugging, and performance optimization.

RTL Design Engineer, Networking / NoC

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Company

OpenAI

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