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Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security

OpenAI · US - Remote · New York City · Seattle · San Francisco

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Frontier labremote$266k–$445k
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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
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