Senior RTL Engineer, Packet-Networking and Interconnect at OpenAI

Department: Scaling

Compensation

$225,000 – $445,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco, California
Level: senior
Posted: Jun 23, 2026

Description

OpenAI is hiring a senior RTL Engineer to own the microarchitecture, SystemVerilog implementation, verification, physical design convergence, silicon bring-up, and production readiness of on-chip and off-chip packet-networking and interconnect components for a custom AI accelerator platform. The role includes designing NoC fabrics, switches, routers, protocol adapters, traffic-management logic, and custom networking protocols, while leading junior engineers and collaborating with architecture, verification, physical design, firmware, performance, and post-silicon teams.

Required Skills

Packet networking
Interconnect design
SystemVerilog
NoC fabrics
Traffic management
Formal verification
Timing closure

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Recent ownership of production RTL for networking or packet-switched datapaths
Extensive industry experience with complex networking, packet-processing, or packet-switched interconnect RTL
Ownership of major RTL blocks or SoC subsystems through tape-out and silicon bring-up
Design of queues, arbiters, schedulers, buffers, routing logic, and traffic-management mechanisms
Experience with AXI, CHI, CXL, PCIe, or Ethernet interfaces and networking datapaths
Design of custom networking protocols and hardware datapaths for RDMA/RoCE, HPC, or AI systems
RTL signoff and verification experience, including synthesis, formal verification, timing, power, and design-for-test
Cross-functional collaboration with architecture, verification, physical design, firmware, performance, and post-silicon teams
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with packet-switched interconnect or networking datapaths for AI accelerators, GPUs, CPUs, HPC, NICs, SmartNICs, switch ASICs, or datacenter silicon
Experience with virtualization, isolation, RAS, telemetry, security, or memory-consistency requirements
Experience with network or NoC performance modeling, traffic simulation, emulation, FPGA prototyping, or post-silicon analysis
Experience leading architecture or RTL delivery for first-generation networking or interconnect IP

About OpenAI

OpenAI

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We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems.

Who they serve

OpenAI offers ChatGPT for Healthcare, a secure AI workspace supporting HIPAA-compliant use with trusted clinical search. OpenAI offers workspace agents that teams can create to run real workflows on their own.

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