Base Salary
$293k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Host Assurance platform components that establish trust in bare-metal hosts.
- Ensure hosts are verifiably trustworthy from delivery and installation through secure bootstrap and orchestration readiness.
- Build machine identity, certificate issuance and enrollment, HSM- or key-management-backed trust services, host attestation, measurement, and baseline verification tooling.
- Validate hardware and firmware against vendor claims and detect and manage drift over time.
- Replace insecure bootstrap patterns with secure, reliable paved paths in partnership with provisioning, fleet, and orchestration teams.
- Contribute code, reviews, operational improvements, and design guidance for foundational trust services.
- Define observable and testable security properties and improve telemetry and validation used to enforce them.
- Participate in incident response, debugging, and post-incident improvements for security-critical infrastructure.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience building and operating reliable production systems at scale.
- Deep expertise in at least one relevant domain, such as PKI, HSMs, machine identity, applied cryptography, secure boot, firmware or hardware security, host attestation, or low-level platform security.
- Ability to work across services and APIs through host, boot, firmware, and hardware-adjacent trust mechanisms.
- Ability to write production-quality code and reason about failure modes, operational safety, and maintainability.
- Experience replacing fragile or manual security mechanisms with durable infrastructure.
- Practical judgment balancing rigorous security controls with deployability in real-world environments.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week
- Preferably based in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA
- Relocation assistance is offered to new employees
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About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.