RTL Design Engineer, Networking / NoC

The role

This person will design and develop next-generation AI accelerator silicon. They will work across architecture, microarchitecture, and RTL implementation to translate system requirements into hardware designs.

What you will do

• Design and implement high-performance RTL for next-generation AI accelerator silicon.
• Collaborate with architecture and software teams to translate system-level requirements into hardware microarchitectures.
• Drive hardware/software co-design efforts to optimize performance, power, area, and scalability.
• Develop and optimize RTL for complex datapaths, control logic, interconnects, and other silicon subsystems.
• Evaluate architectural and microarchitectural tradeoffs.
• Partner with design verification and formal verification teams to ensure functional correctness.
• Work with physical design teams to optimize RTL for synthesis, timing closure, power, and area.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, design specifications, and cross-functional discussions.
• Support block-level and SoC-level integration, debugging, and performance optimization.

Required qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with ASIC RTL design and microarchitecture development using SystemVerilog or Verilog.
• Experience designing and implementing complex digital hardware blocks from architecture through RTL development and verification.
• Understand hardware architecture and microarchitecture tradeoffs including performance, power, area, latency, and throughput.
• Experience collaborating across architecture, software, verification, and physical design teams.
• Ability to reason about complex hardware systems and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Experience with synthesis, timing closure, and physical implementation considerations.
• Experience with Network-on-Chip (NoC), networking, interconnect fabrics, packet-based architectures, or high-bandwidth data movement systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI accelerators, high-performance computing, or hardware/software co-design

Before you apply

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

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for advanced AI workloads.