Software Engineer, Trusted Computing and Cryptography
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.
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Software Engineer, Trusted Computing and Cryptography at OpenAI in Remote (United States). UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 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.
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- deploying high-performance cryptography at scale
- key management (including secure offline physical backups, multi-party computation)
- trusted hardware enclaves that enable everything from boot measurements to GPU confidential computation
- 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.
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- deploying high-performance cryptography at scale
- key management (including secure offline physical backups, multi-party computation)
- trusted hardware enclaves that enable everything from boot measurements to GPU confidential computation
- 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.
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