Platform Security Engineer — Host Assurance

OpenAI; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Relocation assistance

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

A leading technology research company is seeking a Security Engineer for the Host Assurance team to design and implement security infrastructure. This role requires strong software engineering skills and the ability to ensure reliability and security of production systems. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge in areas such as applied cryptography, machine identity, and hardware security, with a focus on establishing trust in bare-metal platforms. Join us to help shape the future of technology while ensuring safety and security.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience building reliable production systems.
• Deep expertise in PKI, HSMs, or secure boot.
• Comfortable across systems boundaries from APIs to hardware.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate components of the Host Assurance platform.
• Ensure hosts are verifiably trustworthy.
• Build systems for machine identity and certificate management.
• Validate hardware against vendor claims.
• Participate in incident response for security-critical infrastructure.

Skills

Software engineering

Production systems reliability

Security mechanisms

Applied cryptography

Host attestation

Job description

A leading technology research company is seeking a Security Engineer for the Host Assurance team to design and implement security infrastructure. This role requires strong software engineering skills and the ability to ensure reliability and security of production systems. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge in areas such as applied cryptography, machine identity, and hardware security, with a focus on establishing trust in bare-metal platforms. Join us to help shape the future of technology while ensuring safety and security.