ASIC Firmware Engineer, Modeling
OpenAISan Francisco, California, United States
Posted February 3, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Job Description
We are looking for an embedded engineer to help build firmware and associated modeling software for OpenAI’s in house AI accelerator. The role involves designing and developing drivers and functional models for a large array of HW components, writing high throughput and low latency firmware code, investigating bring-up and production issues.
Requirements
- Design and implement drivers for hardware peripherals
- 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
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance