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Deployment Lead, Semiconductors- SF

OpenAI· Forward Deployed Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$200k - $295kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Deployment Lead responsible for end-to-end delivery of complex semiconductor deployments, translating business outcomes into technical plans, coordinating OpenAI FDE, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and ensuring on-time delivery and adoption of next-generation AI capabilities for Semiconductor customers.

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.

Qualifications

  • Bring 7+ years of customer‑facing technical delivery leadership.
  • Have 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, ideally involving AI.
  • Excel in high ambiguity environments. Know how to simplify complex and dynamic work.
  • Move fluidly between system level understanding and execution level detail; can dive into customer workflows/data, map constraints, sketch architectures and move ambiguous problems to shipped systems.
  • Think strategically and pattern-match. Able to step back from execution detail, recognize broader trends across deployments, and connect customer needs to scalable, reusable solutions.
  • Have strong technical fluency and sharp sequencing instincts. Confident discussing technical details, pressure-testing architectures, and making trade-offs.
  • Have shipped AI/LLM systems. You understand solution patterns, integration basics, and production pitfalls.
  • You’re a translator with executive presence. You make complex technical trade-offs legible to business leaders and convert strategy into day-to-day technical execution.
  • Enjoy being onsite with customers to accelerate delivery (often 25-50%, sometimes higher).

Skills

Required:Technical delivery leadershipSemiconductor workflows (RTL design, verification, EDA tooling, physical implementation)Project managementStakeholder management

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid coordinated office closures, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation assistance
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits as eligible
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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