Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. We believe AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer.

Introduction

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team is looking for a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL) to drive the delivery of complex AI systems to Semiconductor customers. This role involves translating research breakthroughs into production-grade systems, embedding with customers to solve high-leverage problems, and shaping the future of AI deployment in the semiconductor industry.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent work streams, translating customer objectives into a roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Run day-to-day engineering execution by tracking and driving delivery across OpenAI FDE and customer teams. Keep progress unblocked and sequenced. Make real-time trade-offs on scope and priority to protect the critical path.
• Embed with Semiconductor customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption. Map workflows, shape tools/integrations, and translate requirements into a delivery plan.
• Shape production deployments that integrate with customer infrastructure, data systems, and engineering toolchains, including export-controlled environments.
• Partner with Product and Research so platform components and research work streams land in time to support deployment goals.
• Codify solution patterns and evals. Extract reusable patterns and package field signals to improve product and models.
• Own value cases and ROI. Set impact hypotheses, baselines, and KPIs; run pre-/post-deployment measurement and report to exec sponsors.
• Help define how OpenAI engages Semiconductor customers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership.
• Deep expertise in Semiconductor workflows, including RTL design, verification, EDA tooling, and physical implementation.
• Track record of successfully leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements where customer outcomes depended on tight coordination and fast decision making.
• Experience in high ambiguity environments, with an ability to simplify complex and dynamic work.
• Ability to move fluidly between system-level understanding and execution-level detail; capable of diving into customer workflows/data, mapping constraints, sketching architectures, and moving ambiguous problems to shipped systems.
• Strategic thinking and pattern-matching skills, able to recognize broader trends across deployments and connect customer needs to scalable, reusable solutions.
• Strong technical fluency and sharp sequencing instincts; confident discussing technical details, pressure-testing architectures, and making trade-offs.
• Experience shipping AI/LLM systems, understanding solution patterns, integration basics, and production pitfalls.
• Ability to translate complex technical trade-offs for business leaders and convert strategy into day-to-day technical execution.
• Willingness to be onsite with customers to accelerate delivery (often 25-50%, sometimes higher).

Benefits

• Relocation assistance offered.
• Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office per week.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI systems that benefit humanity.

About Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. We believe AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

How to Apply

Apply via the provided application link.