Software Engineer, Host Assurance
OpenAI · San Francisco · Seattle · US - Remote
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labremote$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build trust services that make bare-metal and VM hosts eligible for production.
- Own secure bootstrap and host attestation for global-scale compute infrastructure.
- Shape how massive compute fleets come online securely at global scale.
What they offer
- equity
Ideal candidate
A pragmatic platform or backend engineer who thrives at the hardware-software boundary and cares about making strong security usable at scale. Self-directed, low-ego, and energized by ambiguous, high-impact infrastructure challenges.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience building and operating reliable production systems at scale
- Depth in distributed systems, backend or platform engineering, operating systems, or infrastructure security
- Ability to reason across services, APIs, and host software and learn boot, firmware, and hardware trust mechanisms
- Experience writing production-quality code with attention to failure modes, operational safety, and maintainability
- Experience supporting critical production systems at scale, including on-call
- Balance rigor with pragmatism to make security controls deployable in real-world environments
- Self-directed, low-ego, and collaborative across disciplines
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