Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors - Texas
OpenAI · US - Remote
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## About the Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team turns research breakthroughs into production-grade systems. We embed deeply with customers to solve high-leverage problems and act as the delivery engine for our most complex large-scale engagements—moving quickly from prototype to production and surfacing reusable patterns that shape our platform. We operate at the intersection of deployment and development, working closely with OpenAI Research, Product, and Partnerships. --- ## About the Role 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. This role focuses on the semiconductor vertical to deploy next-generation AI capabilities. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive **0→1 prototypes** through **MVP and scale**. You’ll also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. **Success** is measured first and foremost by impact—deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures include delivery reliability, operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signals that shift roadmaps/architectures). This is a **high-trust, high-autonomy** role requiring deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and the ability to immerse in customer workflows to solve complex engineering problems at pace. **Location:** Remote (Austin, Texas) **Travel:** 25–50% --- ## In this role, you will: - **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—keeping progress unblocked and sequenced, and making real-time trade-offs 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**. --- ## You might thrive in this role if you: - Have **7+ ye
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