Software Engineer, Private Computing

Triwill Group; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking software engineers in San Francisco to design, build, and scale privacy features and infrastructure across ChatGPT, API, and future devices. The role collaborates with product, security, safety, policy, and legal teams to deliver scalable, secure systems with strong privacy guarantees.

You will work on trusted execution environments, end-to-end encryption, and private inference/storage, while maintaining reliability and building trust through robust infrastructure and tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building and scaling confidential computing or encryption technologies in production.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud orchestration systems.
• Ability to design, build, and scale privacy features and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Ship fast while balancing difficult trade-offs in complex domains.
• Build abstractions for trusted execution environments and end-to-end encryption.
• Develop features for private inference and storage across products.
• Update build systems to increase trust and verifiability.
• Integrate with safety and integrity infrastructure.
• Operate systems at scale with on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, security, safety, policy, and legal.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Encryption tech

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Secure infra

Job description

Description: 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.

In this role, you will:

• 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

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Care deeply about user privacy and security
• Have 5+ years of experience in professional software engineering
• Have experience building and scaling confidential computing or encryption technologies in production environments
• Have experience with Kubernetes and cloud orchestration systems
• Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable, secure systems
• Can collaborate well and drive alignment in the face of difficult trade‑offs
• Are comfortable 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 we 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.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Aff… https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US‑based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non‑public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.