About the job
As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to Semiconductor customers. You will own how solutions are scoped, built, shipped, and adopted across high-value engineering workflows such as RTL design, verification, and physical implementation. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals.
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
Minimum
- 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.
Preferred
- 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).