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Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering (Lawful Access)

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
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 build internal tools and data pipelines that power lawful data access request workflows and Legal Operations. You will design backend systems, implement strong privacy and security controls, partner with Legal teams, and own production systems end to end.

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
  • End-to-end ownership including operating what you build
  • Experience collaborating across Engineering, Legal, operations, Privacy, and Security

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the lifecycle of 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 while 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

  • Relocation assistance
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