Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors - Texas

OpenAI
Austin
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 176,000 - 224,000 annuallyFunction: Marketing & GrowthExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Technical fluency","Sequencing","Judgment under pressure","Executive communication","High-ambiguity problem solving"]

Own end-to-end technical delivery for semiconductor customer deployments, from scoping and planning to shipment, readiness, and adoption. Lead day-to-day execution across OpenAI FDE, researchers, and customer engineers, translating objectives into roadmaps with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria. Drive end-to-end sequencing from 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale, codify reusable solution patterns, and measure impact with ROI/metrics while partnering with Product and Research to land platform components on time.

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Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors - Texas

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end technical delivery for semiconductor customer deployments, from scoping and planning to shipment, readiness, and adoption. Lead day-to-day execution across OpenAI FDE, researchers, and customer engineers, translating objectives into roadmaps with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria. Drive end-to-end sequencing from 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale, codify reusable solution patterns, and measure impact with ROI/metrics while partnering with Product and Research to land platform components on time.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Marketing & Growth
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the technical delivery plan for multiple interdependent work streams, translating customer objectives into roadmaps with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
  • •Run day-to-day engineering execution across OpenAI FDE and customer teams, tracking progress, unblocking work, and making real-time scope/priority trade-offs to protect the critical path.
  • •Embed with semiconductor customer teams to land production deployments and drive adoption by mapping workflows and translating requirements into a delivery plan.
  • •Shape production deployments integrating with customer infrastructure, data systems, and engineering toolchains, including export-controlled environments.
  • •Partner with Product and Research to land components in time, codify reusable solution patterns/evals, and run pre-/post-deployment measurement to report impact and ROI.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 176,000 - 224,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key 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 leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements with tight coordination and fast decision-making.
  • •Ability to operate in high ambiguity—simplify complex, dynamic problems and sequence work effectively.
  • •Technical fluency to discuss architectures and trade-offs, connect customer needs to scalable reusable solutions, and understand production pitfalls of AI/LLM systems.
Experience:7+ yearsSemiconductorsAI/LLMCustomer-facing delivery
Skills:Technical fluencySequencingJudgment under pressureExecutive communicationHigh-ambiguity problem solving
Tech Stack:RTL designVerificationEDA toolingPhysical implementationAI/LLMIntegrationsExport-controlled environments

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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