RH
Career profile

Richard Ho

VP Hardware @ OpenAI | ex-SVP Lightmatter | ML for chip design | ex-Google TPU | ex-Cofounder 0-In Design Automation

San Francisco, California, United States

Career path.

  1. OpenAI

    VP, Hardware

    Jul 2026 - Present
  2. USC Stevens School of Computing and AI

    Member of the Board of Advisors

    May 2026 - Present
  3. OpenAI

    Head of Hardware

    Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
  4. Lightmatter

    Senior Vice President, Silicon and Software Engineering

    Sep 2023 - Nov 2023
  5. Lightmatter

    VP, Hardware Engineering

    Aug 2022 - Sep 2023
  6. Google

    Sr. Director, Engineering

    Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
  7. CHIPSAlliance

    Vice Chairman Of The Board

    Apr 2019 - Jun 2022
  8. Google

    Principal Engineer/Director

    Apr 2018 - Apr 2022
  9. Stanford University

    Adjunct Lecturer

    Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
  10. Google

    Sr. Staff Engineer

    Feb 2014 - Apr 2018
  11. Calxeda, Inc.

    Director of Engineering, SoC

    May 2013 - Jan 2014
  12. Accellera

    Co-Chair, Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard

    Jun 2008 - Oct 2012
  13. D. E. Shaw Research

    Research Engineer

    Sep 2005 - Apr 2013
  14. Mentor Graphics

    Principal Engineer

    Sep 2004 - Sep 2005
  15. 0-In Design Automation

    Co-Founder, Chief Architect and Vice President

    Jul 1996 - Sep 2004