Software Engineer, Host Assurance
3 days agoSeniorSalary: 266K - 445KSan Francisco, Seattle, and US - RemoteRemoteCybersecurityJobs by OpenAI
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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 design, build and operate components of the Host Assurance platform that establish trust in bare-metal and VM hosts before production use. You'll work on machine identity, certificate issuance, host attestation and verification tooling, own software through launch and operation, and partner with infrastructure teams.
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, and host software
- Experience writing production quality code
- Experience supporting critical production systems, such as on-call
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Host Assurance platform components
- Ensure hosts are verifiably trustworthy from delivery through secure bootstrap
- Build machine identity, certificate issuance and enrollment, HSM-backed trust services, host attestation and baseline verification tooling
- Validate delivered hardware and firmware against vendor claims and detect drift
- Eliminate insecure bootstrap patterns while preserving deployment throughput
- Own software through implementation, launch, monitoring, rollout and runbooks
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Define observable, testable security properties for host platforms
- Work across deployment models and provider boundaries
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and 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
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends