# Software Engineer, Private Computing

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $230K - $385K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $230K – $385K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Benefits include:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

## About the Team

The Private Computing team works across product, engineering, security, and safety to build advanced privacy products and infrastructure at OpenAI. Our mission is to provide world-class security features to users so their private data remains private, even from OpenAI. We use technologies like confidential computing, trusted execution environments, and end-to-end encryption to ship product features across ChatGPT, the API, and our future consumer devices.

## About the Role

We're looking for software engineers to design, build, and scale novel privacy features and infrastructure across ChatGPT, API, and future consumer devices.

## Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

- Ship fast while balancing difficult trade-offs in complex domains

- Build core abstractions for trusted execution environments and end-to-end-encryption

- Build product features for private inference and storage across ChatGPT, API, and future consumer devices

- Update build systems to increase trust and verifiability

- Integrate with safety and integrity 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

## Requirements

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 building and scaling confidential computing or encryption technologies in production environments

- Have experience with Kubernetes and cloud orchestration systems

- 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

## Workplace & Location

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We follow a hybrid model with 4 days a week in the office and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

## Skills

### Required
- confidential computing
- encryption technologies
- Kubernetes
- cloud orchestration

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