Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labremotesenior$230k–$325k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build systems governing how user data is retained, accessed and used.
- Design metadata systems and policy enforcement for AI at scale.
- Make policy-aligned data handling the default across products.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
Senior engineer who thrives on ambiguous, high-trust problems and cross-functional influence, passionate about turning privacy principles into durable, scalable systems.
Requirements
- Substantial experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms, privacy infrastructure, or governance systems in complex production environments
- Led architecture and multi-team execution for data-governance domains such as metadata and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, or data-use controls
- Can translate ambiguous policy, legal, security, and product requirements into system boundaries, standards, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes
- Influence senior stakeholders and engineering teams without formal authority and build durable cross-functional alignment
- Take end-to-end ownership of high-trust systems including correctness, scalability, auditability, and operational resilience
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