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Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering (Lawful Access)

OpenAI · London, UK · Dublin, Ireland

Frontier labremote$293k–$325k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build secure systems powering lawful data access request workflows end-to-end.
  • Design auditable pipelines for authorized retrieval across products and data stores.
  • Build least-privilege controls with human oversight for sensitive legal workflows.

What they offer

  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Full-stack engineer who thrives on ambiguous operational problems and cares deeply about privacy, correctness, and operator experience. You enjoy partnering with Legal and Engineering to make high-stakes, sensitive workflows safer and more reliable.

Requirements

  • Experience building or operating systems for lawful data access requests
  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals and production services or data-intensive systems experience
  • Ability to reason about correctness, authorization, security, and privacy with sensitive data
  • Track record of turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic plans and communicating tradeoffs
  • End-to-end ownership including operating what you build and learning unfamiliar domains
  • Care for operator experience and making complex workflows safer and more efficient
  • Experience collaborating across Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Security, and operations stakeholders
remote policy
Hybrid - 3 days in office per week

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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