OpenAI · 10 hours ago
Software Engineer, Encryption
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, and scale novel privacy features and infrastructure across ChatGPT and future consumer devices.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Ship fast while balancing difficult trade-offs in complex domains
Build core abstractions for end-to-end-encryption, storage, sync, and recovery
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
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in professional software engineering
Experience designing end-to-end encryption envelope encryption protocols (e.g. Labyrinth)
Experience building intuitive authentication experiences for users
Experience building and scaling HSM infra under strict security requirements (e.g. Juicebox)
Care deeply about user privacy and security
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
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.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
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
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Recent News
2026-01-25
MIT Technology Review
2026-01-25
MIT Technology Review
2026-01-25
Company data provided by crunchbase