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Software Engineer, Private Computing

Location
San Francisco, CA (Remote) · Hybrid
Job type
Full-time
Level
Mid-level
Experience
5+ years
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Kubernetes
  • trusted execution environments
  • end-to-end encryption

Also useful

  • private inference
  • build systems

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 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 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.

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Read the original posting

From OpenAI's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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