OpenAI
Software Engineer, Private Computing
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco
Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 5 weeks ago, still checked daily, but it has been live a while.
Salary
$230,000–$385,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid" and 4 days a week in the office
What Nomaders makes of it
- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
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 Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at OpenAI, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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