OpenAI · 13 hours ago
ASIC Firmware Engineer, Modeling
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking an embedded engineer to help build firmware and associated modeling software for their in-house AI accelerator, involving the design and development of drivers and functional models for hardware components.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and implement drivers for hardware peripherals, including those related to AI chips
Design and implement functional software models to simulate SoC uncore logic and enable FW testing against the model
Design and implement low-latency and high throughput embedded SW to manage HW resources
Work with adjacent software and hardware teams to implement requirements, debug issues and shape future generations of the hardware
Collaborate with vendors to integrate their technologies within our systems
Bring up and debug firmware/driver on new platforms
Come up with processes and debug issues raised in the field
Set up monitoring, integration testing and diagnostics tools
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience working in embedded SW space
Ability to thrive in ambiguity and learn new technologies
Strong programming skills in C/C++ and/or Rust
Experience developing high throughput, low latency and multi-threaded code
Experience working with real time operating systems (RTOS)
Experience developing hardware drivers and working with hardware
Experience with HW/SW co-design
Knowledge of common embedded protocols, e.g. UART, I2C, SPI, etc
Preferred
Knowledge of microprocessor and common ARM architectures (e.g. AMBA) is a plus
Knowledge of PCIe, ethernet and other high BW communication protocols is a plus
Experience with GPUs or other compute hardware is a plus
Experience deploying large compute clusters is a plus
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.
201-500 employees
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2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
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