Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design

Job summary

Responsibilities

We’re hiring a Research Engineer to help OpenAI models solve chip-design problems through reinforcement learning, tool use, and evaluation.

• Build RL environments and evaluations for tasks such as RTL generation, design verification, and physical design optimization.
• Develop and test approaches that help models use chip-design tools and improve power, performance, and area while preserving correctness.
• Design experiments, establish baselines, and measure whether improvements hold up on new tasks and designs.
• Investigate failures across model behavior, rewards, evaluation tools, and experiment infrastructure.
• Improve iteration speed through better tooling, faster evaluations, and proxy rewards that reflect the outcomes we care about.