Software Engineer, Cyber Safeguards
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will lead the technical direction and hands-on execution of cyber safeguard infrastructure, supporting cyber evaluations and safeguard research. You'll establish reliability, observability, on-call and SLA/SLO practices, partner across security, research, policy and product, and mentor teammates.
Requirements
- Extensive experience owning large-scale production systems including reliability, on-call, incident response, SLAs/SLOs
- Senior/staff-level technical leadership driving ambiguous cross-functional work, especially in cybersecurity
- Strong hands-on software engineering and systems-design skills
- Ability to collaborate with researchers and turn research needs into robust infrastructure
- Experience communicating about cyber capability, misuse risk, safeguards, and deployment tradeoffs
Responsibilities
- Drive technical direction and hands-on execution for cyber safeguard infrastructure
- Establish production-quality reliability, observability, on-call, and SLA/SLO practices
- Partner with security, research, policy and product teams to build durable platforms
- Lead cross-functional technical work and unblock collaborators
- Build reliable systems supporting cyber evaluations and research workflows
- Improve scalability, usability, and operational safety of cyber safeguards
- Mentor teammates and raise the engineering bar
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends