OpenAI · 1 week ago
Power Architect
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$295K/yr - $445K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a highly skilled cross-stack power architect to work within their silicon implementation team, focusing on making ML systems energy efficient and optimizing performance-per-watt for next-generation AI accelerator chips.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Oversee power architecture, implementation, and execution in silicon from concept to high-volume deployment, and propose high-ROI features to maximize performance under power envelope
Build chip and system-level power models grounded in empirical data and experience to guide organization-wide energy efficiency strategy. This requires a detailed understanding of ML workloads, ML chip and system architecture, silicon design, implementation, and characterization
Collaborate with chip and platform architecture/design teams to explore and implement power management features, including the specification and implementation of digital/mixed-signal IP, sensing and telemetry, firmware/system software, and silicon characterization methodology (in partnership with engineering teams)
Partner with silicon design and implementation teams, to optimize performance under power envelope. This includes (but is not limited to) clocking and power domain architecture, voltage/frequency selection, microarchitecture and physical-design driven power reduction, post-silicon voltage margin optimization and workload-informed power optimization
Work with ecosystem partners (EDA, ASIC, IP, component vendors) to drive innovations that can improve energy efficiency
Qualification
Required
Relevant degree and strong industry experience focused on the end-to-end energy-efficient ML silicon codesign
Hands-on experience with power architecture, power estimation, power management and power optimization is required
Preferred
Fundamental understanding of ML chip and platform architecture, performance modeling and workload power/performance characteristics is strongly preferred
Hands-on experience with power bring-up and power validation is strongly preferred
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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