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Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

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 set the technical direction for user data governance, build shared services, APIs, and metadata systems, establish inventories of user data and data flows, and partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal leaders. You'll own governance systems in production with measurable controls, observability, and incident response.

Requirements

  • Substantial experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms, privacy infrastructure, or governance systems
  • Led architecture and multi-team execution for data-governance domains
  • Ability to translate ambiguous policy, legal, security, and product requirements into technical standards and roadmaps
  • Influence senior stakeholders without formal authority
  • End-to-end ownership of high-trust systems

Responsibilities

  • Set technical strategy and architecture for user data governance
  • Design and build shared services, APIs, metadata systems, and policy-enforcement mechanisms
  • Establish inventories of user data, system ownership, data flows, and policy applicability
  • Partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal leaders to drive adoption
  • Own governance systems in production through controls, observability, migrations, and incident response

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
Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering at OpenAI | JobStash