# Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $176k – $224k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Semiconductor Workflows, Rtl Design, Verification, Eda Tooling, Physical Implementation, Technical Project Management, Ai Systems, LLMs, System Architecture, Data Systems, Engineering Toolchains, Change Management
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> Leads end-to-end technical delivery of AI deployments for semiconductor customers, coordinating engineering, research, product, and customer teams. The role requires 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery experience, deep semiconductor workflows expertise, and experience shipping production AI or LLM systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own technical delivery plans for multiple interdependent workstreams, translating customer objectives into roadmaps with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
- Drive day-to-day execution across Forward Deployed Engineers, researchers, customer engineers, and semiconductor customer teams.
- Make scope, sequencing, and priority trade-offs to protect critical paths and deliver production deployments.
- Embed with semiconductor customers to map workflows, define success criteria, shape tools and integrations, and drive adoption and change management.
- Integrate solutions with customer infrastructure, data systems, engineering toolchains, and export-controlled environments.
- Partner with Product and Research to align platform components and research workstreams with deployment goals.
- Codify reusable solution patterns and evaluations, and share field insights to inform product and model roadmaps.
- Define value cases, baselines, KPIs, and pre-/post-deployment impact measurement for executive sponsors.
- Travel to customer sites approximately 25–50% of the time.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership experience.
- Deep semiconductor workflow expertise, including RTL design, verification, EDA tooling, and physical implementation.
- Experience leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements involving tight coordination and rapid decision-making.
- Strong technical project management, sequencing, architecture evaluation, and trade-off judgment.
- Ability to translate between system-level strategy, customer workflows, technical constraints, and execution details.
- Experience shipping AI or large language model systems, including production integrations and deployment patterns.
- Strong executive communication and customer-facing translation skills.
- Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous, high-trust environments.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $176,000–$224,000.

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