EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure Engineer

📋 Job Overview

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, our custom silicon program, the team works across silicon architecture, RTL design, verification, physical design, systems software, and infrastructure to deliver highly performant, efficient, and scalable hardware solutions.

🏢 About OpenAI

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, our custom silicon program, the team works across silicon architecture, RTL design, verification, physical design, systems software, and infrastructure to deliver highly performant, efficient, and scalable hardware solutions.

🎯 The Role

We’re looking for an Infrastructure Software Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure and developer workflows that power OpenAI’s custom silicon development. You’ll work closely with engineering teams across design verification, physical design, emulation, formal verification, and systems software to develop reliable, automated, and efficient workflows that accelerate hardware development.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build developer tools and workflows: Partner with hardware engineering teams to understand their development processes, identify bottlenecks, and build tooling, services, and APIs that automate workflows and accelerate engineering productivity.
• Develop and scale regression infrastructure: Design, implement, and operate large-scale regression systems spanning job scheduling, execution, results collection, triage, and reporting, with a focus on performance, reliability, and reproducibility.
• Own CI/CD infrastructure: Build and maintain automated pipelines for infrastructure, developer tooling, and cluster configurations, enabling safe deployments, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Scale cloud and HPC environments: Design, provision, and operate cloud infrastructure and high-performance compute clusters, optimizing scheduling, capacity, reliability, and cost efficiency to support demanding silicon development workloads.
• Build data infrastructure and observability: Develop data pipelines, databases, and monitoring systems that provide visibility into regression results, infrastructure health, resource utilization, and engineering efficiency.
• Drive platform reliability and operational excellence: Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, improve monitoring and alerting, automate recovery processes, and build systems that are resilient, maintainable, and scalable.
• Collaborate across hardware and software teams: Work directly with engineers across RTL, verification, physical design, emulation, and software to continuously improve the infrastructure supporting OpenAI's silicon development.

🎁 Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.