Design Verification, Forward Deployed Engineering

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Responsibilities

• ▹Serve as the design verification SME, helping teams reason about workflows across block, subsystem, and SoC environments
• ▹Shape AI-assisted workflows for test generation, regression triage, debug, and coverage closure
• ▹Curate evaluations with FDEs and customer SMEs, including golden tasks, rubrics, and acceptance criteria
• ▹Build lightweight prototypes, eval harnesses, and tooling that validate opportunities
• ▹Educate and mentor the broader FDE team on verification concepts, tooling, and methodology
• ▹Partner with FDEs during customer discovery and scoping
• ▹Support customer-facing technical conversations as a trusted advisor
• ▹Progressively take on broader FDE responsibilities: customer discovery, solution architecture, prototyping, production deployment

Requirements

• ▹BS/MS in EE, CE, CS, or equivalent, with 5+ years of experience in design verification for complex IP, subsystem, or SoC programs
• ▹Demonstrated success verifying complex hardware systems in industry-standard flows
• ▹Strong hands-on expertise in SystemVerilog, UVM, and simulation/debug tools such as VCS, Questa, or Verdi
• ▹Strong understanding of constrained-random verification, directed testing, scoreboards, checkers, and coverage analysis
• ▹Strong knowledge of computer architecture, RTL/microarchitecture, memory systems, and interconnects
• ▹Experience defining verification plans, triaging bugs, and driving debug and root-cause analysis
• ▹Strong scripting and automation skills in Python or similar

Nice to have

• ▹Experience across multiple semiconductor companies, design environments, or tool stacks
• ▹Familiarity with adjacent domains such as RTL design, formal verification, emulation, or physical design
• ▹Experience applying AI/LLM systems to semiconductor workflows
• ▹Experience creating reusable evals or methodology assets
• ▹Prior experience in customer-facing, consultative, or field engineering roles

Soft skills

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.