Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors- SF
$25k - $50k • Remote • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 2mo ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team is responsible for turning research breakthroughs into production-grade systems, working closely with customers to solve high-leverage problems and drive complex, large-scale engagements. As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define and own the delivery of complex AI systems to Semiconductor customers, focusing on high-value engineering workflows like RTL design, verification, and physical implementation. You will translate business outcomes into technical plans, manage day-to-day execution, and ensure solutions are adopted and deliver measurable value. This high-autonomy role requires deep technical project management expertise, ownership of outcomes, and the ability to immerse in customer workflows to solve complex engineering problems at pace.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical delivery plan for multiple work streams, translating customer objectives into a roadmap with milestones and dependencies.
- Manage day-to-day engineering execution across internal and customer teams, ensuring progress and making real-time trade-offs.
- Embed with Semiconductor customer teams to deploy production solutions, map workflows, and shape tools and integrations.
- Shape production deployments that integrate with customer infrastructure, data systems, and engineering toolchains.
- Partner with Product and Research teams to ensure platform components and research work streams support deployment goals.
- Codify solution patterns and extract reusable patterns from field insights to improve products and models.
- Own value cases and ROI by setting impact hypotheses, baselines, and KPIs, and reporting on pre-/post-deployment measurements.
- Help define how OpenAI engages with Semiconductor customers.
Requirements
- 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership experience.
- Deep expertise in Semiconductor workflows, including RTL design, verification, EDA tooling, and physical implementation.
- Proven track record of leading large, complex customer engagements, ideally involving AI.
- Ability to excel in high ambiguity environments and simplify complex, dynamic work.
- Proficiency in moving between system-level understanding and execution detail, including mapping customer workflows and sketching architectures.
- Strategic thinking and pattern-matching skills to identify broader trends and connect customer needs to scalable solutions.
- Strong technical fluency and sequencing instincts, with confidence in discussing technical details and making trade-offs.
- Experience shipping AI/LLM systems, understanding solution patterns, integration basics, and production pitfalls.
- Excellent communication skills to translate complex technical trade-offs for business leaders and convert strategy into technical execution.
- Willingness to be onsite with customers frequently (often 25-50%, sometimes higher).
Benefits
- Relocation assistance