Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design

OpenAI is seeking a Research Engineer to apply AI, specifically reinforcement learning, to chip design challenges. You will own experiments from ideation to analysis, building environments, training models, and developing software for reliable and reproducible research. This role requires strong coding, experimental judgment, and the ability to work independently.

• Build RL environments for RTL generation, design verification, and physical design optimization
• Develop approaches for models to use chip-design tools and improve power, performance, and area
• Design and measure experiments to validate improvements on new tasks and designs
• Investigate failures in model behavior, rewards, and infrastructure
• Improve iteration speed through tooling and faster evaluations
• Turn successful experiments into reusable research code and training workflows