# Software Security Architect, Operating Systems \| Consumer Devices **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $268K - $342K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c15d4e1b-adcf-4809-91d5-17ba6b789092?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f814cd66-0b6 ## Description ## Compensation $268K – $342K • Offers Equity The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits. - 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) - 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, may also be provided. ## About the Team OpenAI Consumer Devices is building the next generation of products that bring powerful AI into people’s everyday lives. Guided by OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, our team combines world-class researchers, engineers, designers, and operators who care deeply about creating useful, intuitive, and responsible technology. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside exceptional people on ambitious, zero-to-one challenges at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI. ## About the Role We’re looking for a **Software Security Architect** to define the security architecture for OpenAI’s next-generation operating system. You’ll work alongside hardware security architects and partner with operating system, silicon, firmware, privacy, and product teams to protect users, their devices, and their data. ### Responsibilities - Define the operating system’s security architecture, trust boundaries, privilege model, and protections for sensitive user data. - Partner with hardware security architects to integrate roots of trust, secure elements, trusted execution environments, and processor security capabilities into the operating system. - Design foundational platform defenses, including secure boot, code signing, attestation, secure updates, key protection, and device recovery. - Establish isolation and access controls across the kernel, applications, system services, and AI workloads. - Define guardrails for how AI applications and agents access information, use sensors and tools, retain context, and act on a user’s behalf. - Lead threat modeling and architecture reviews across the platform, translating emerging threats into practical, enforceable requirements. - Prototype solutions, review security-critical systems code, and guide engineering teams through complex technical and product tradeoffs. ### Minimum Qualifications: - Deep experience designing or securing operating systems, kernels, embedded platforms, hypervisors, or other privileged systems software. - Complex understanding of operating system internals, including memory protection, process isolation, executable loading, device drivers, and privilege boundaries. - Experience building security architectures that span hardware, firmware, operating systems, applications, and cloud services. ### You might thrive in this role if you: - Bring practical expertise in secure boot, code signing, device identity, attestation, trusted execution, and hardware-backed key protection. - Can write or review systems code in C, C++, Rust, or comparable languages, with a strong grasp of secure development and exploit mitigation. - Build rigorous threat models, influence cross-functional engineering teams, and communicate security tradeoffs clearly. - Care deeply about user privacy, personal agency, and building systems that earn trust through their design. ## Skills ### Required - operating systems - security architecture - hardware security - firmware - cloud services - C - C++ - Rust ### Nice to have - secure boot - code signing - device identity - attestation - trusted execution - hardware-backed key protection - kernel hardening - memory-safety mitigations - virtualization-based security - secure enclave integration --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c15d4e1b-adcf-4809-91d5-17ba6b789092?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)