Software Engineer, Cyber Safeguards
OpenAI · San Francisco
Frontier labremotestaff$230k–$325k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead technical direction for cyber safeguard infrastructure in Preparedness.
- Build reliable systems supporting cyber evaluations and safe deployment.
- Improve scalability and operational safety of frontier AI safeguards.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A very senior, independent engineer who thrives in ambiguity and cares deeply about safe AI deployment, comfortable bridging research and production-grade systems across teams.
Requirements
- Extensive experience owning large-scale production systems with reliability, on-call, and SLAs/SLOs
- Senior/staff-level technical leadership driving ambiguous, cross-functional cybersecurity work
- Strong hands-on software engineering and systems design skills across unfamiliar codebases
- Ability to turn evolving research needs into robust infrastructure with researchers
- Experience reasoning about cyber capability, misuse risk, safeguards, and deployment tradeoffs
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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