Software Engineer, Private Computing

OpenAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI seeks software engineers to design, build, and scale privacy features and infrastructure across ChatGPT, the API, and future devices. You will ship fast while balancing trade-offs and build abstractions for trusted execution environments and end-to-end encryption.

This hybrid role is based in San Francisco, CA with four in-office days. Relocation assistance is available as you collaborate with product, security, safety, policy and legal to deliver private inference and secure storage at

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.
• Strong focus on privacy and security in system design.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and scale privacy features and infrastructure across ChatGPT, API, and future devices.
• Ship fast while balancing tough trade-offs in complex domains.
• Update build systems to increase trust and verifiability.
• Integrate with safety and integrity infrastructure.
• Operate systems at scale with high reliability; participate in on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, security, safety, policy and legal.

Skills

Privacy

Encryption

Confidential computing

Kubernetes

Cloud orchestration

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job 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 t