Software Engineer

Summary

Join OpenAI's Security team as a Software Engineer specializing in Trusted Computing and Cryptography. You will build and secure critical computing infrastructure, focusing on trusted computing and cryptography at scale. This role involves writing high-quality code in Rust and Python, integrating advanced cryptographic techniques, and designing secure key management systems. You will collaborate with researchers, engineers, and security experts. The position offers a hybrid work model (3 days in the office per week) with relocation assistance and may be based remotely in the US with occasional travel. OpenAI is committed to ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Requirements

• Have extensive experience as a software engineer working on global-scale production systems
• Are experienced in deploying cryptographic systems at scale, with a strong understanding of production cryptographic key management
• Have familiarity with security primitives, including but not limited to TPM2, Secure Boot, secure enclaves, and confidential computing platforms
• Have professional experience programming in Python and proficiency in Rust and/or C/C++

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, performance-critical code in Rust and Python
• Work alongside researchers, engineers, and security experts to integrate and scale advanced cryptographic techniques into our production and research systems
• Write foundational libraries to support cryptographic operations and ensure security best practices are embedded into our infrastructure
• Design, implement, and maintain secure key management systems for production environments
• Design and deploy systems that help us trust our infrastructure, using security primitives and technologies such as tpm2, Secure Boot, Nitro Enclaves, confidential computing, Intel SGX, and AMD-SEV
• Research, design, and implement operating system-level security measures, such as remote attestation, runtime TPM measurement, and host integrity verification

Preferred Qualifications

• Own problems end-to-end and are willing to acquire any missing knowledge to get the job done
• Have experience architecting, observing, and debugging production distributed systems
• Exhibit a humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and a commitment to the team’s success
• Are self-directed and enjoy identifying the most important problems to tackle
• Have experience rebuilding or significantly refactoring production systems to accommodate rapidly increasing scale
• Have a good intuition for when off-the-shelf solutions will work and can quickly build tools to accelerate workflows when they won’t

Benefits

• This role may be based remotely in the US with occasional travel to our San Francisco HQ or other offices as needed by the team or role
• We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees