Base Salary
$293k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the full lifecycle of lawful data access requests.
- Build reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores to support accurate and reproducible record handling.
- Implement least-privilege access, approval gates, provenance, audit trails, data minimization, and safe failure modes.
- Partner with Legal and Legal Operations to translate requirements into technical designs and intuitive operator experiences.
- Identify responsible automation opportunities while preserving human review, judgment, and accountability.
- Own production systems through testing, observability, incident response, documentation, and reliability improvements.
- Help define the architecture and roadmap for reusable privacy and legal-infrastructure foundations.
Requirements
- Experience building or operating systems for lawful data access requests and understanding of their legal-process lifecycle, privacy and security constraints, auditability requirements, and operational sensitivities.
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience building production services or data-intensive systems.
- Ability to reason carefully about correctness, authorization, security, and privacy when handling sensitive data.
- Track record of translating ambiguous requirements into pragmatic plans and clearly communicating technical tradeoffs.
- End-to-end ownership mindset, including operating systems in production and learning unfamiliar products and domains.
- Care for operator experience and motivation to make complex workflows safer, clearer, and more efficient.
- Experience collaborating across Engineering, Legal, operations, Privacy, and Security stakeholders.
Benefits
- Based in San Francisco, California, with London and Dublin also under consideration.
- Hybrid work model requiring three days in the office per week.
- Relocation assistance is available to new employees.
Categories
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.