{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"efe34c3fff5bf2b29a95a474","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/efe34c3fff5bf2b29a95a474","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/efe34c3fff5bf2b29a95a474","title":"Design Verification, Forward Deployed Engineering","description":"About the Team\n\nOpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with leading semiconductor companies to deploy production-grade AI systems across the entire chip design lifecycle: design, verification, and physical design. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, embedding deeply with customers to translate frontier model capabilities into systems that materially reduce design cycles, improve verification quality, and accelerate innovation.\n\nOur work turns early, high-touch deployments into reusable solution patterns, evaluation practices, and technical playbooks that scale across the semiconductor ecosystem.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe are seeking an experienced Design Verification Engineer to join our semiconductor-focused Forward Deployed Engineering team. This is an IC role that will begin with a strong emphasis on design verification expertise, evaluation curation, and technical leverage across deployments, with the expectation that the person will grow into a broader Forward Deployed Engineering role over time.\n\nIn the near term, you will serve as a senior technical SME for verification workflows: helping FDEs, Product, and Research teams understand how DV work is done in practice, pressure-testing AI-assisted verification ideas against real engineering workflows, and raising the quality of our solutions through deep domain judgment. You will help the broader team build fluency in verification methodology, tooling, and trade-offs.\n\nOver time, we expect this role to expand beyond SME support into broader FDE ownership: partnering directly with customers, shaping deployment strategy, building and iterating production-grade AI systems, driving technical workstreams, and helping turn high-touch semiconductor deployments into repeatable solutions.\n\nThis is a strong fit for someone who brings deep design verification expertise today and is excited to grow into a customer-facing, systems-building, delivery-oriented FDE role.\n\nIn this role, you will:\nServe as the design verification SME for semiconductor deployments, helping teams reason about verification workflows across block, subsystem, and SoC environments\n\nShape AI-assisted workflows for test generation, regression triage, debug, root-cause analysis, and coverage closure\n\nCurate evaluations with FDEs and customer SMEs, including golden tasks, labeled examples, rubrics, acceptance criteria, and realistic benchmarks grounded in solved issues and real engineering workflows\n\nBuild lightweight prototypes, eval harnesses, and tooling that validate opportunities and improve solution quality\n\nEducate and mentor the broader FDE team on verification concepts, tooling, and methodology so the org can engage semiconductor workflows with greater depth and confidence\n\nPartner with FDEs during customer discovery and scoping to translate ambiguous pain points into clear solution hypotheses, success criteria, and technical plans\n\nSupport customer-facing technical conversations as a trusted advisor, engaging credibly with technical leaders\n\nProgressively take on broader FDE responsibilities, including customer discovery, solution architecture, prototype development, production deployment, and ownership of technical workstreams\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBS/MS in EE, CE, CS, or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in design verification for complex IP, subsystem, or SoC programs\n\nDemonstrated success verifying complex hardware systems in industry-standard flows, with deep familiarity in block-, subsystem-, and/or top-level verification methodologies\n\nStrong hands-on expertise in SystemVerilog, UVM, and common simulation/debug tools such as VCS, Questa, Verdi, or equivalent\n\nStrong understanding of constrained-random verification, directed testing, scoreboards, checkers, monitors, stimulus generation, regression infrastructure, and coverage analysis\n\nStrong knowledge of computer architecture, RTL/microarchitecture, memory systems, coherency, interconnects, and verification methodology\n\nExperience defining verification plans, triaging bugs, and driving debug and root-cause analysis in close partnership with design teams\n\nStrong scripting and automation skills in Python or similar; experience building verification tooling, harnesses, or workflow automation is a plus\n\nComfortable operating as a consultative expert who can shape technical direction, evaluate solution quality, and raise the bar across multiple deployments\n\nExcited to grow beyond domain SME responsibilities into a broader Forward Deployed Engineering role, including hands-on solution building, customer-facing delivery, and ownership of deployment outcomes\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience across multiple semiconductor companies, design environments, or tool stacks, with a point of view shaped by different verification cultures and methodologies\n\nFamiliarity with adjacent domains such as RTL design, formal verification, emulation, performance analysis, or physical design\n\nExperience applying AI/LLM systems to semiconductor workflows\n\nExperience creating reusable evals, methodology assets, or technical playbooks\n\nPrior experience in customer-facing, consultative, field engineering, solutions engineering, or technical delivery roles\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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nFor additional information, please see\n\nOpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement\n\n.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through\n\nthis form\n\n. 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\nOpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy\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. 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This is an IC role that will begin with a strong emphasis on design verification expertise, evaluation curation, and technical leverage across deployments, with the expectation that the person will grow into a broader Forward Deployed Engineering role over time.\n\nIn the near term, you will serve as a senior technical SME for verification workflows: helping FDEs, Product, and Research teams understand how DV work is done in practice, pressure-testing AI-assisted verification ideas against real engineering workflows, and raising the quality of our solutions through deep domain judgment. You will help the broader team build fluency in verification methodology, tooling, and trade-offs.\n\nOver time, we expect this role to expand beyond SME support into broader FDE ownership: partnering directly with customers, shaping deployment strategy, building and iterating production-grade AI systems, driving technical workstreams, and helping turn high-touch semiconductor deployments into repeatable solutions.\n\nThis is a strong fit for someone who brings deep design verification expertise today and is excited to grow into a customer-facing, systems-building, delivery-oriented FDE role.\n\nIn this role, you will:\nServe as the design verification SME for semiconductor deployments, helping teams reason about verification workflows across block, subsystem, and SoC environments\n\nShape AI-assisted workflows for test generation, regression triage, debug, root-cause analysis, and coverage closure\n\nCurate evaluations with FDEs and customer SMEs, including golden tasks, labeled examples, rubrics, acceptance criteria, and realistic benchmarks grounded in solved issues and real engineering workflows\n\nBuild lightweight prototypes, eval harnesses, and tooling that validate opportunities and improve solution quality\n\nEducate and mentor the broader FDE team on verification concepts, tooling, and methodology so the org can engage semiconductor workflows with greater depth and confidence\n\nPartner with FDEs during customer discovery and scoping to translate ambiguous pain points into clear solution hypotheses, success criteria, and technical plans\n\nSupport customer-facing technical conversations as a trusted advisor, engaging credibly with technical leaders\n\nProgressively take on broader FDE responsibilities, including customer discovery, solution architecture, prototype development, production deployment, and ownership of technical workstreams\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBS/MS in EE, CE, CS, or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in design verification for complex IP, subsystem, or SoC programs\n\nDemonstrated success verifying complex hardware systems in industry-standard flows, with deep familiarity in block-, subsystem-, and/or top-level verification methodologies\n\nStrong hands-on expertise in SystemVerilog, UVM, and common simulation/debug tools such as VCS, Questa, Verdi, or equivalent\n\nStrong understanding of constrained-random verification, directed testing, scoreboards, checkers, monitors, stimulus generation, regression infrastructure, and coverage analysis\n\nStrong knowledge of computer architecture, RTL/microarchitecture, memory systems, coherency, interconnects, and verification methodology\n\nExperience defining verification plans, triaging bugs, and driving debug and root-cause analysis in close partnership with design teams\n\nStrong scripting and automation skills in Python or similar; experience building verification tooling, harnesses, or workflow automation is a plus\n\nComfortable operating as a consultative expert who can shape technical direction, evaluate solution quality, and raise the bar across multiple deployments\n\nExcited to grow beyond domain SME responsibilities into a broader Forward Deployed Engineering role, including hands-on solution building, customer-facing delivery, and ownership of deployment outcomes\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience across multiple semiconductor companies, design environments, or tool stacks, with a point of view shaped by different verification cultures and methodologies\n\nFamiliarity with adjacent domains such as RTL design, formal verification, emulation, performance analysis, or physical design\n\nExperience applying AI/LLM systems to semiconductor workflows\n\nExperience creating reusable evals, methodology assets, or technical playbooks\n\nPrior experience in customer-facing, consultative, field engineering, solutions engineering, or technical delivery roles\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. 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For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through\n\nthis form\n\n. 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\nOpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy\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$162K – $302K + Offers Equity","datePosted":"2026-05-11T22:50:21.406Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T22:50:21.406Z","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":"efe34c3fff5bf2b29a95a474"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/efe34c3fff5bf2b29a95a474"}}