Steven Herbst
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Herbst is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with 17 years of experience bridging hardware, FPGA acceleration, and systems-level software. He has led engineering teams to build cloud FPGA-based emulation and web-deployed chiplet system tools as Director of Software Solutions at Zero ASIC, and previously served as CTO of an autonomous robotics startup focused on sustainable farming. His PhD work at Stanford produced open-source FPGA emulation tools that accelerated mixed-signal chip simulation by two to three orders of magnitude, reflecting a strong research-to-product track record. Earlier roles include hardware design contributions at Apple (first-gen Apple Watch charger) and analog/PMIC work at Intersil, giving him a rare combination of silicon, embedded systems, and cloud deployment expertise. Based in Mountain View, he brings product-minded leadership to complex cross-disciplinary problems, often turning academic breakthroughs into practical developer-facing tools.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (94)
verilog10
lattice10
high-speed10
systemverilog10
receiver10
adc10
icarus9
logic9
fpga9
vhdl9
instantiation9
synthesis9
parser9
floating9
elevation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sgherbst/msdsl
Aug 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:8 releases, 5 reviews, 295 commits in 3 years
pythonfmicircuitstlaanalog
sgherbst/pyhigh
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Python library for accessing elevation data
Contributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
elevationpythonusgs
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