OpenAI
Technology
SoftwareEngineer,PrivateComputing
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“Software Engineer, Private Computing at OpenAI. Skills: Private computing, Confidential computing, Encryption technologies. Design privacy features. Build privacy features”
Industry & Context.
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years software engineering, Experience with Kubernetes, Experience with cloud orchestration
Nice to Have
Experience building confidential computing, Experience scaling encryption technologies, Experience with Kubernetes and cloud orchestration systems, Experience building and operating scalable systems, Experience building and operating reliable systems, Experience building and operating secure systems
What You'll Do.
Design privacy features
Build privacy features
Scale privacy features
Build core abstractions
Build product features
Integrate with safety infrastructure
Integrate with integrity infrastructure
Operate systems at scale
Manage on-call rotation
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Product teams; Engineering teams; Security teams; Safety teams; Policy teams; Legal teams
Full 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 de
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