Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security
OpenAI · US - Remote · New York City · Seattle · San Francisco
CHECKED 23H AGO
Frontier labremote$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Safeguard GPU supercomputing clusters powering frontier AI models at scale.
- Build foundational auth, proxies and access brokers for secure AI infrastructure.
- Drive line-speed encryption and network isolation for emerging AI workloads.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A builder-minded security engineer who thrives operating high-reliability distributed systems at massive scale and cares deeply about protecting frontier AI. Proactive, collaborative, and excited to embed security into high-performance research infrastructure.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Rust, or C/C++ with track record shipping high-reliability distributed services
- Experience building or operating critical security infrastructure (auth services, proxies, key-management systems)
- Deep understanding of security principles, best practices, and common vulnerabilities
- Expertise securing large-scale cloud platforms including multi-cloud networks and cloud-agnostic design
- Familiarity with container and orchestration security and modern auth standards (OIDC, mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE)
- Proactive mindset with ability to address security gaps through automation and tooling
- Track record delivering scalable solutions and driving impactful changes across infrastructure
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills assessing security risks
- Excellent communication skills conveying complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
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