Base Salary
$266k - $445k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Host Assurance platform components that establish trust in bare-metal and VM hosts before production use.
- Ensure hosts remain verifiably trustworthy from hardware 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.
- Eliminate insecure bootstrap patterns while partnering with provisioning, fleet, and orchestration teams on secure deployment paths.
- Own components through implementation, operational readiness, launch, rollout, monitoring, recovery procedures, runbooks, and ongoing operation.
- Participate in production support through an on-call rotation and define observable, testable security properties for host platforms.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience building and operating reliable production systems at scale.
- Depth in distributed systems, backend or platform engineering, operating systems, or infrastructure security.
- Ability to reason across services, APIs, host software, trust boundaries, correctness, and safe failure behavior.
- Experience writing production-quality code and analyzing failure modes, operational safety, and long-term maintainability.
- Experience supporting critical production systems at scale, such as through on-call responsibilities.
- Experience with PKI, HSMs, machine identity, attestation, secure boot, or hardware security is valuable but not required.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across infrastructure, research, provisioning, fleet, orchestration, hardware, and firmware disciplines.
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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.