Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering (Lawful Access)
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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the full lifecycle of lawful data access requests. You'll build data pipelines, implement least-privilege access, approval gates, and audit trails, partner with Legal and Legal Operations, and own production systems through testing, observability, and incident response.
Requirements
- Experience building or operating systems for lawful data access requests
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience with production or data-intensive systems
- Ability to reason about correctness, authorization, security, and privacy with sensitive data
- Track record of turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic plans
- Experience collaborating across Engineering, Legal, operations, Privacy, and Security
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for lawful data access requests
- Build reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores
- 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
- Identify responsible automation opportunities preserving human review
- Own production systems through testing, observability, incident response, and documentation
- Help define architecture and roadmap for reusable privacy and legal-infrastructure foundations
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, plus paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- 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