Software Engineer, HSM Infrastructure Security, Consumer Devices
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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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 develop security-critical software and firmware within or adjacent to an HSM trust boundary, including trusted applications, drivers, PKCS#11 components and signing-policy enforcement. This is a hands-on role: design systems, write and review production code, debug across hardware and software, and carry projects through deployment.
Requirements
- 5+ years building secure embedded firmware for constrained environments
- Deep programming experience in C, C++, or Rust
Responsibilities
- Design and implement security-critical software and firmware for HSMs, secure elements, TEEs and hardware roots of trust
- Build and harden the policy-to-HSM boundary for certificate issuance and signing
- Develop HSM trusted applications, firmware, drivers, SDKs and cryptographic integrations
- Implement cryptographic interfaces such as PKCS#11 and OpenSSL providers
- Enforce key lifecycle policies cryptographically
- Design HSM-backed CA, code-signing, key-management and device-identity systems
- Develop end-to-end cryptographic protocols
- Build device attestation, secure boot and provisioning capabilities
- Design verifiable, auditable multi-party authorization controls
- Write, test and audit secure embedded software
- Develop test harnesses, emulators, fuzzers and fault-injection tooling
- Threat-model trust boundaries
- Partner with hardware, firmware, infrastructure and security teams
- Help establish engineering standards for HSM development and key management
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