OpenAI
Systems Software Engineer, Security, First Party Hardware
$230K–$385K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 8, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years, or exceptional accomplishments demonstrating equivalent expertise.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates may need to meet certain legal status requirements under U.S. export control laws and regulations.
About the job
Owns end-to-end security for OpenAI’s first-party AI hardware, from design and validation through manufacturing and data-center deployment.
What you'll do
- Define security requirements, threat models, validation strategies, and launch-readiness evidence for hardware platforms.
- Design and review device trust protections, including secure boot, identity, attestation, firmware resilience, and management-plane security.
- Drive security readiness across manufacturing, deployment, fleet operations, and incident response.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of hands-on experience, or exceptional accomplishments demonstrating equivalent expertise, in hardware, embedded, firmware, platform, or low-level systems security.
- Experience shipping or securing real hardware platforms or embedded devices.
- Ability to read and write systems code in C, C++, or Rust.
- Strong applied-cryptography judgment and familiarity with secure boot, device attestation, key provisioning, firmware signing, or related security areas.
Nice to have
- Experience with hardware-software interfaces such as SPI, I2C, SMBus, PCIe, UART, JTAG, SWD, and GPIOs.
- Experience driving end-to-end security programs across hardware, firmware, infrastructure, manufacturing, operations, and partners.
Pay
$230K – $385K USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Rust, TLS/mTLS, Redfish, gNMI, SSH, syslog
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