OpenAI

Software Engineer, Private Computing

OpenAI • $130K — $180K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in professional software engineering
  • Experience with confidential computing or encryption technologies in production
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud orchestration systems
  • Passion for user privacy and security
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and rapid changes
  • Strong collaboration skills to drive alignment in complex scenarios

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale privacy features for ChatGPT and API
  • Build core abstractions for trusted execution environments
  • Develop private inference and storage solutions
  • Enhance build systems for trust and verifiability
  • Integrate safety and integrity infrastructure
  • Manage high-reliability systems with on-call responsibilities
  • Collaborate across cross-functional teams including product and legal

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 4 days in the office
  • Relocation assistance for new employees
Full Job Description
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 artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
Learn more about OpenAI
Size
100 employees
Industry
Information Technology
Founded
2015
* Ladders Estimates

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