Physical Design Engineer

Required

• BS w/ 4+ or MS with 2+ years or PhD with 0-1 year(s) of relevant industry experience in physical design and methodology development
• Demonstrated success in taping out complex silicon designs
• Hands-on experience with block physical implementation and PPA convergence
• Strong coding experience with python, bazel, TCL
• Strong experience building physical design tools, flows and methodologies
• Strong understanding of microarchitecture, RTL design, physical design, circuit design, physical verification and timing closure.
• Deep familiarity with industry-standard tools and flows for physical synthesis, PNR, LEC and power estimation
• Experience with AI or HPC-focused chips
• Experience with optimizing PPA for high performance compute cores
• Hands-on experience with top-level design methodologies
• 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.
• 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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.