OpenAI · 9 hours ago
Software Engineer, Trusted Computing and Cryptography
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior LevelOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves deploying high-performance cryptography at scale and securing critical computing infrastructure, with responsibilities including writing performance-critical code and designing secure key management systems.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
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
Design, implement, and maintain secure key management systems for production environments
Design and deploy systems that help us trust our infrastructure, 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
Qualification
Required
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
Design, implement, and maintain secure key management systems for production environments
Design and deploy systems that help us trust our infrastructure, 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
Have extensive experience as a software engineer working on global-scale production systems
Are experienced in deploying cryptographic systems at scale, with a strong understanding of production cryptographic key management
Have familiarity with security primitives, including but not limited to TPM2, Secure Boot, secure enclaves, and confidential computing platforms
Have professional experience programming in Python and proficiency in Rust and/or C/C++
Own problems end-to-end and are willing to acquire any missing knowledge to get the job done
Have experience architecting, observing, and debugging production distributed systems
Exhibit a humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and a commitment to the team's success
Are self-directed and enjoy identifying the most important problems to tackle
Have experience rebuilding or significantly refactoring production systems to accommodate rapidly increasing scale
Have a good intuition for when off-the-shelf solutions will work and can quickly build tools to accelerate workflows when they won't
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
Recent News
2026-01-14
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