Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $380K - $500K. Posted on Sep 11, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re hiring a Research Engineer to help OpenAI models solve chip-design problems through reinforcement learning, tool use, and evaluation. You’ll own experiments from the initial idea through implementation and analysis. That means building environments and evaluations, running training, investigating failures, and using the results to decide what to try next. You’ll also build the software needed to make those…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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