OpenAI
Software Engineer, Trusted Computing and Cryptography
OpenAI, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Software Engineer, Trusted Computing and Cryptography
Security - Remote - US
About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. They are technical in what they build but operational in how they work, supporting all OpenAI products and research. Their tenets include prioritizing impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and fostering a robust security culture.
About the Role Trusted Computing and Cryptography is an engineering and security team within the OpenAI Security organization. We focus on:
Deploying high-performance cryptography at scale
Key management (including secure offline physical backups and multi-party computation)
Trusted hardware enclaves that enable everything from boot measurements to GPU confidential computation
We need a software engineer to help build out and secure our critical computing infrastructure, focusing on trusted computing and cryptography at scale. This role may be based remotely in the US with occasional travel to our San Francisco HQ or other offices as needed. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
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.
You might thrive in this role if you:
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++.
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.
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 AI systems and safely deploy them through our products, valuing diverse perspectives and ensuring the technology serves humanity’s best interests.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristic.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers, we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non‑public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non‑compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
Compensation $308K – $465K + Offers Equity • Multiple Ranges
Apply now (opens in a new window)
#J-18808-Ljbffr
About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. They are technical in what they build but operational in how they work, supporting all OpenAI products and research. Their tenets include prioritizing impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and fostering a robust security culture.
About the Role Trusted Computing and Cryptography is an engineering and security team within the OpenAI Security organization. We focus on:
Deploying high-performance cryptography at scale
Key management (including secure offline physical backups and multi-party computation)
Trusted hardware enclaves that enable everything from boot measurements to GPU confidential computation
We need a software engineer to help build out and secure our critical computing infrastructure, focusing on trusted computing and cryptography at scale. This role may be based remotely in the US with occasional travel to our San Francisco HQ or other offices as needed. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
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.
You might thrive in this role if you:
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++.
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.
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 AI systems and safely deploy them through our products, valuing diverse perspectives and ensuring the technology serves humanity’s best interests.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristic.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers, we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non‑public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non‑compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
Compensation $308K – $465K + Offers Equity • Multiple Ranges
Apply now (opens in a new window)
#J-18808-Ljbffr