Hardware Lead

About the Team The org focuses on harnessing frontier AI models to transform scientific, strategic, economically important domains. They build partnerships with established industry leaders to solve distribution challenges and help bring AI innovation to these spaces. The team operates like a startup within OpenAI, with unmatched research depth, compute, and real-world impact. About the Role We're looking for a Hardware Lead to drive the technical direction of a small, highly specialized team. In this role, you'll work to improve our models' ability to understand, reason about, and impact compute hardware development, while also contributing hands-on as an individual contributor. This is a player-coach role: you'll set technical direction, mentor and manage a small team, and directly design experiments and research artifacts yourself. In This Role, You Will Co-lead and grow small hardware-focused team working on model-driven and hardware co-design Act as a hands-on technical contributo...