Software Engineer, Encryption
About the Team 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.
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Software Engineer, Encryption at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team 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.
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- Ship fast while balancing difficult trade-offs in complex domains
- Build core abstractions for encrypted storage, sync, and recovery, especially when paired with inference in trusted execution environments
- 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
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- 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
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