OpenAI

Physical Design Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering

This posting has since been taken down. We keep it because a closed requisition still proves OpenAI created and funded this role — it is not a sign the company stopped hiring for it.

Employer: OpenAI
Location: San Francisco
Seniority: Not stated
Experience asked for: Not stated
Pay band: $162K – $302K
Team: Model Deployment for Business

When we saw it

Posted 2026-05-13 — the date the employer published it
First seen 2026-05-25 — the first scan of ours that found it
Last seen open 2026-05-25
Gone by 2026-07-01 — the first scan that no longer found it
Archived 2026-05-25 — when we saved this copy

Found via OpenAI Careers (Ashby).

From the posting

About the Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with leading semiconductor companies to deploy production-grade AI systems across the entire chip design lifecycle: design, verification, and physical design. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, embedding deeply with customers to translate frontier model capabilities into systems that materially improve engineering workflows and accelerate innovation. Our work turns early, high-touch deployments into repeatable solution patterns, reference architectures, and evaluation practices that scale across the semiconductor ecosystem. About the Role We are seeking a highly skilled Physical Design Engineer to join our semiconductor-focused Forward Deployed Engineering team. …

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