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Software Engineer, Encryption

OpenAISan Francisco, United States
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We're looking for software engineers to design, build, and scale novel privacy features and infrastructure across ChatGPT and our future consumer devices.


Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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 designing end-to-end 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

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Is the Software Engineer, Encryption position at OpenAI remote?
Yes. This role was posted on Remote Backend Jobs, a job board that lists exclusively fully remote positions.
When was this Software Engineer, Encryption job posted?
This listing was posted on February 2, 2026 and is still open for applications.
How do I apply for the Software Engineer, Encryption position at OpenAI?
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