{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"6a8a79a7d9b81c0eafaa8978","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6a8a79a7d9b81c0eafaa8978","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6a8a79a7d9b81c0eafaa8978","title":"EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure Engineer","description":"Hardware - San Francisco\n\nAbout the Team\n\nOpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeñoant, efficient, and scalable hardware solutions.\n\nThe Silicon & Systems team brings together hardware and software engineers to co-design and build the next generation of AI infrastructure. We operate at the intersection of silicon, systems, and software, tackling complex technical challenges across the full hardware development lifecycle, from early architecture and design through validation, deployment, and production.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe’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 verificational verification, and systems software to develop reliable, automated, and efficient workflows that accelerate hardware development.\n\nIn this roles that support our silicon engineering teams. You'll translate complex hardware development requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions, reducing manual overhead, improving reliability, and enabling engineers to iterate faster.\n\nThis is a highly collaborative.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\nBuild 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.\n\nDevelop and scale regression infrastructure: Designance, reliability, and reproducibility.\n\nOwn CI/CD infrastructure: Build and maintain automated pipelines for infrastructure, developer tooling, and cluster configurations, enabling safe deployments, testing, and continuous improvement.\n\nScale cloud and HPC environments: Designance compute clusters, optimizing scheduling, capacity, reliability, and cost efficiency to support demanding silicon development workloads.\n\nBuild data infrastructure and observability: Develop data pipelines, databases, and monitoring systems that provide visibility into regression results, infrastructure health, resource utilization, and engineering efficiency.\n\nDrive 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.\n\nCollaborate 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.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\nHave strong software engineering fundamentals, with proficiency in Python or a similar programming language and experience building reliable automation, tools, or infrastructure services.\n\nBring deep technical expertise in at least one area of infrastructure engineering, such as Linux/HPC environments, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, storage, networking, or EDA development workflows.\n\nHave experience designing or Bicep.\n\nHave strong Linux systems knowledgeance troubleshooting, and system administration.\n\nHave experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkinss.\n\nAre comfortable debugging complex distributed infrastructure problems, identifying root causes, and implementing durable solutions.\n\nEnjoy working closely with engineering teams to understand technical requirements and translate them into scalable, practical infrastructure solutions.\n\nTake ownership of systems end to end, from initial design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing operational improvements.\n\nBring strong technical judgment, clear communication, and a collaborative approach to solving ambiguous engineering challenges.\n\nAre curious about hardware development and excited to expand your technical expertise across infrastructure, silicon design workflows, and developer productivity.\n\nBonus Qualifications\n\nExperience supporting ASIC or semiconductor development environmentsal verification.\n\nExperience operating large-scale HPC clusters or workload schedulers such as Slurm.\n\nFamiliarity with compute farms, regression frameworks, build systems, and hardware development toolchains.\n\nExperience with enterprise identity and authentication systems, such as Entra ID, OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, or SSSD.\n\nExperience designing and operating relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design, migrations, query optimization, and backups.\n\nFamiliarity with distributed systems components, including message queues, caching layers, artifact storage, and backend services.\n\nExperience with high-performance storage systems, data movement optimization, or large-scale compute infrastructure.\n\nExperience managing EDA license servers, license utilization, or other shared infrastructure resources in hardware development environments.\n\nTo 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.\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI 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 the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.\n\nCompensation\n\n$287K – $485K + Offers Equity\n\nThe base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.\n\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts\n\nPre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)\n\n401(k) retirement plan with employer match\n\nPaid 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)\n\nPaid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees\n\n13+ 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)\n\nMental health and wellness support\n\nEmployer-paid basic life and disability coverage\n\nAnnual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth\n\nDaily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible\n\nRelocation support for eligible employees\n\nAdditional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.\n\nMore details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.\n\nThis 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.","company":"OpenAI","rawCompany":"openai","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-11-04T09:21:56.546Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure Engineer","description":"Hardware - San Francisco\n\nAbout the Team\n\nOpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeñoant, efficient, and scalable hardware solutions.\n\nThe Silicon & Systems team brings together hardware and software engineers to co-design and build the next generation of AI infrastructure. We operate at the intersection of silicon, systems, and software, tackling complex technical challenges across the full hardware development lifecycle, from early architecture and design through validation, deployment, and production.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe’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 verificational verification, and systems software to develop reliable, automated, and efficient workflows that accelerate hardware development.\n\nIn this roles that support our silicon engineering teams. You'll translate complex hardware development requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions, reducing manual overhead, improving reliability, and enabling engineers to iterate faster.\n\nThis is a highly collaborative.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\nBuild 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.\n\nDevelop and scale regression infrastructure: Designance, reliability, and reproducibility.\n\nOwn CI/CD infrastructure: Build and maintain automated pipelines for infrastructure, developer tooling, and cluster configurations, enabling safe deployments, testing, and continuous improvement.\n\nScale cloud and HPC environments: Designance compute clusters, optimizing scheduling, capacity, reliability, and cost efficiency to support demanding silicon development workloads.\n\nBuild data infrastructure and observability: Develop data pipelines, databases, and monitoring systems that provide visibility into regression results, infrastructure health, resource utilization, and engineering efficiency.\n\nDrive 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.\n\nCollaborate 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.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\nHave strong software engineering fundamentals, with proficiency in Python or a similar programming language and experience building reliable automation, tools, or infrastructure services.\n\nBring deep technical expertise in at least one area of infrastructure engineering, such as Linux/HPC environments, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, storage, networking, or EDA development workflows.\n\nHave experience designing or Bicep.\n\nHave strong Linux systems knowledgeance troubleshooting, and system administration.\n\nHave experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkinss.\n\nAre comfortable debugging complex distributed infrastructure problems, identifying root causes, and implementing durable solutions.\n\nEnjoy working closely with engineering teams to understand technical requirements and translate them into scalable, practical infrastructure solutions.\n\nTake ownership of systems end to end, from initial design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing operational improvements.\n\nBring strong technical judgment, clear communication, and a collaborative approach to solving ambiguous engineering challenges.\n\nAre curious about hardware development and excited to expand your technical expertise across infrastructure, silicon design workflows, and developer productivity.\n\nBonus Qualifications\n\nExperience supporting ASIC or semiconductor development environmentsal verification.\n\nExperience operating large-scale HPC clusters or workload schedulers such as Slurm.\n\nFamiliarity with compute farms, regression frameworks, build systems, and hardware development toolchains.\n\nExperience with enterprise identity and authentication systems, such as Entra ID, OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, or SSSD.\n\nExperience designing and operating relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design, migrations, query optimization, and backups.\n\nFamiliarity with distributed systems components, including message queues, caching layers, artifact storage, and backend services.\n\nExperience with high-performance storage systems, data movement optimization, or large-scale compute infrastructure.\n\nExperience managing EDA license servers, license utilization, or other shared infrastructure resources in hardware development environments.\n\nTo 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.\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI 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 the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.\n\nCompensation\n\n$287K – $485K + Offers Equity\n\nThe base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.\n\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts\n\nPre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)\n\n401(k) retirement plan with employer match\n\nPaid 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)\n\nPaid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees\n\n13+ 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)\n\nMental health and wellness support\n\nEmployer-paid basic life and disability coverage\n\nAnnual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth\n\nDaily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible\n\nRelocation support for eligible employees\n\nAdditional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.\n\nMore details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.\n\nThis 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.","datePosted":"2026-11-04T09:21:56.546Z","dateModified":"2026-11-04T09:21:56.546Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"OpenAI","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"6a8a79a7d9b81c0eafaa8978"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6a8a79a7d9b81c0eafaa8978"}}