OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer, Trusted Computing and Cryptography

OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer to join the Trusted Computing and Cryptography team within OpenAI Security. Your work will focus on deploying high-performance cryptography at scale, designing secure key management systems, and using trusted hardware enclaves to secure critical computing infrastructure for our mission.

What You'll Do

• Write high-quality, performance-critical code in Rust and Python.
• Work with researchers, engineers, and security experts to integrate and scale advanced cryptographic techniques into production and research systems.
• Write foundational libraries to support cryptographic operations and embed security best practices into infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure key management systems for production environments.
• Design and deploy trust infrastructure systems using security primitives and technologies such as TPM2, Secure Boot, Nitro Enclaves, confidential computing, Intel SGX, and AMD-SEV.
• Research, design, and implement operating system-level security measures, such as remote attestation, runtime TPM measurement, and host integrity verification.

What We're Looking For

• Extensive experience as a software engineer working on global-scale production systems.
• Experience deploying cryptographic systems at scale, with a strong understanding of production cryptographic key management.
• Familiarity with security primitives, including but not limited to TPM2, Secure Boot, secure enclaves, and confidential computing platforms.
• Professional experience programming in Python and proficiency in Rust and/or C/C++.
• Ability to own problems end-to-end and willingness to acquire any missing knowledge to get the job done.
• Experience architecting, observing, and debugging production distributed systems.
• A humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and a commitment to the team’s success.
• Self-directed nature with a knack for identifying the most important problems to tackle.
• Experience rebuilding or significantly refactoring production systems to accommodate rapidly increasing scale.
• Good intuition for when off-the-shelf solutions will work and the ability to quickly build tools to accelerate workflows when they won’t.

Technical Stack

• Languages: Rust, Python, C/C++
• Technologies: tpm2, Secure Boot, Nitro Enclaves, Intel SGX, AMD-SEV

Team & Environment

The Trusted Computing and Cryptography team is an engineering and security team within the OpenAI Security organization. Security is foundational to OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Team tenets include prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.

Benefits & Compensation

• Relocation assistance.

Work Mode

This is a hybrid role based in the United States.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.