Software Engineer, Private Computing

Details

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.

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 a diverse set of 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
• Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
• Ability to collaborate well and drive alignment in the face of difficult trade-offs
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change

Workplace & Location

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We follow a hybrid model with 4 days a week in the office and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year, plus paid sick or safe time
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends