Technical Program Manager, Custom Silicon Development

Technical Program Manager, Custom Silicon Development

Technical Program Management - San Francisco

OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform.

As a Hardware Chips Programs Manager at OpenAI, you will help bring our chips hardware roadmap to life, navigating an array of technical and partnership challenges. We’re looking for people excited to push the frontiers of computing by navigating technical explorations and are passionate about building.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

• Manage the design and implementation planning of our ML acceleration hardware, working across technical, cross-functional and external stakeholders
• Lead planning and scheduling of chip hardware designs with our strategic partners and vendors
• Coordinate and marshal internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors.

• Have experience as a technical program manager for data center hardware products (server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage and so on)

• Know the whole end-to-end system program management from concept, design, production, deployment into the data center
• Have some experience with System SW programs through NPI
• Want to help design some of the world’s largest supercomputing systems, working at the edge of complex hardware challenges
• Enjoy working with and enabling world-class AI Researchers and Engineers
• Are passionate about the technical program function, and enjoy independently owning and delivering on your teams’ goals and cutting‑edge problems in AI compute

"To comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations."

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. 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.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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