Silicon Design Lead

The role

The Silicon Design Lead will drive architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation of key IP and subsystems for AI hardware platforms. This role involves translating functional, performance, and security requirements into efficient silicon designs.

What you will do

• Own architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation of silicon IP and subsystems.
• Define hardware interfaces, data flows, and microarchitectural tradeoffs.
• Partner with the Security team to translate security architecture and threat models into hardware capabilities.
• Design and integrate hardware security mechanisms like encryption, key management, and access controls.
• Evaluate architectural and implementation tradeoffs for security and performance.
• Collaborate with silicon architects, RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams.
• Review and contribute to RTL implementations.
• Evaluate existing and third-party IP to identify and solve architectural or implementation gaps.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience in silicon IP or subsystem-level architecture, microarchitecture, and implementation.
• Experience owning hardware IP or subsystem designs from architectural definition through implementation and integration.
• Experience implementing hardware security features such as memory encryption, key management, access controls, isolation, or secure boot.
• Ability to translate functional and security requirements into hardware architectures, interfaces, and microarchitectural specifications.
• Working knowledge of RTL design.
• Coding proficiency in Verilog or SystemVerilog.
• Ability to read, review, and contribute to RTL.
• Ability to evaluate performance, power, area, and complexity tradeoffs across silicon designs.
• Ability to work effectively across security, silicon architecture, RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams.

Nice to have

• Broader SoC-level architecture or integration experience

Before you apply

• Candidates may need to meet certain legal status requirements to comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations.
• Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.