Software Engineer, Private Computing

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About the Team

The Private Computing team works across product, engineering, security, and safety to build advanced privacy products and infrastructure at OpenAI. Our mission is to provide world-class security features to users so their private data remains private, even from OpenAI. We use technologies like confidential computing, trusted execution environments, and end-to-end encryption to ship product features across ChatGPT, the API, and our future consumer devices.

About the Role

We’re looking for software engineers to design, build, and scale novel privacy features and infrastructure across ChatGPT, API, and future consumer devices. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Ship fast while balancing difficult trade-offs in complex domains
• Build core abstractions for trusted execution environments and end-to-end encryption
• Build product features for private inference and storage across ChatGPT, API, and future consumer devices
• Update build systems to increase trust and verifiability
• Integrate with safety and integrity infrastructure
• Operate systems at scale with high reliability, including an on-call rotation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, security, safety, policy, and legal

Requirements

• Care deeply about user privacy and security
• 5+ years of experience in professional software engineering
• Experience building and scaling confidential computing or encryption technologies in production environments
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud orchestration systems
• Experience building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
• Ability to collaborate and drive alignment in the face of difficult trade-offs
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change

Benefits & Additional Information

• Base pay range listed: $255,000 – $405,000 (total compensation may include equity and bonuses)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to HSAs
• Pre-tax accounts (Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter accounts)
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
• Flexible PTO and paid company holidays
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning & development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits (as eligible)
• Relocation support for eligible employees

Other Notes

• Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law for US-based candidates.
• OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.