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Software Engineer, Private Computing

OpenAI Indexed employerSan Francisco
Source-hosted applyChecked 4h ago$230K–$385K/yrFull-Time
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Workplace

hybrid

Employment

Full-Time

Published

Aug 20, 2026

Closes

No date supplied

The role

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 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 AI research and de

Requirements

Department: Consumer Devices; Team: Consumer Devices