OpenAI
Software Engineer, Private Computing
$230K–$385K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates privacy features and infrastructure for ChatGPT, the API, and future consumer devices.
What you'll do
- Build abstractions for trusted execution environments and end-to-end encryption, and develop private inference and storage features.
- Improve build systems for trust and verifiability, and integrate with safety and integrity infrastructure.
- Operate reliable systems at scale, including participating in an on-call rotation and collaborating across teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience building and scaling confidential computing or encryption technologies in production.
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud orchestration systems.
Pay
$230K – $385K USD base salary
Tools
confidential computing, trusted execution environments, end-to-end encryption, Kubernetes
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative