# Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design

About the Team OpenAI develops models that can reason through complex problems and hardware designed for the demands of advanced AI. AI for Chips connects these efforts: applying increasingly capable AI systems to the work of semiconductor engineering. Our goal is to help engineers develop better chips and shorten design cycles. This work brings research, model training, and hardware expertise together to build tools that engineers can use on real designs, with correctness and measurable performance at the center. About the Role We’re hiring a Research Engineer to help OpenAI models solve chip-design problems through reinforcement learning, tool use, and evaluation. You’ll own experiments from the initial idea through implementation and analysis. That means building environments and evaluations, running training, investigating failures, and using the results to decide what to try next. You’ll also build the software needed to make those experiments reliable and reproducible. We value strong coding fundamentals, careful experimental judgment, and the ability to make progress independently. Prior chip-design experience is helpful, but you can learn the domain alongside the team’s har

- **Id**: 782957
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-research-engineer-ai-for-chip-design>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-11T23:38:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T12:27:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 60
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5725
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Conversational AI, Generative Video, Code Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 2
- **Name**: OpenAI
- **Domain**: openai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openai>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 208
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.808
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 380000
- **Max**: 500000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 500000

## Technologies

- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Formal Verification** — Optional: yes
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: yes
- **Verilog** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 60

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T01:06:41Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 262 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 262

## Liveness

- **Score**: 23
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.519
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 60
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 500000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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