Software Engineer, Encryption

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Encryption 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 end-to-end encryption, hardware security modules (HSMs), and trusted execution environments (TEEs), and design modern crypto, storage, and authentication protocols to ship product features across ChatGPT and our future consumer devices. We’re looking for software engineers to design, build, and scale novel privacy features and infrastructure across ChatGPT and our future consumer devices.

Requirements

Care deeply about user privacy and security
Have 5+ years of experience in professional software engineering
Have experience designing end-to-end encryptionenvelope encryption protocols (e.g. Labyrinth)
Have experience building intuitive authentication experiences for users
Have experience building and scaling HSM infra under strict security requirements (e.g. Juicebox)
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

Responsibilities

Ship fast while balancing difficult trade-offs in complex domains
Build core abstractions for end-to-end-encryption, storage, sync, and recovery
Build product features for authentication, encryption, and storage across ChatGPT and future consumer devices
Build and maintain infrastructure for hardware security modules (HSMs)
Integrate with private inference and computing 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