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Software Engineer, Host Assurance

OpenAI · San Francisco · Seattle · US - Remote

CHECKED 35M AGO

Frontier labremote$266k–$445k
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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
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