Systems Software Engineer, Security, First Party Hardware

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 266,000 - 445,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Security","Cryptography","TLS","TLS/mTLS","Certificates","Security reviews","Hardware interfaces","C","C++","Rust","Firmware","Boot","Attestation","Key management","Encryption","Measured boot"]

Join OpenAI’s Hardware security team as a Security Engineer for first-party AI hardware. You’ll own end-to-end security foundations across hardware, firmware, and system security for data-center-scale deployments, collaborating with silicon, firmware, manufacturing, and operations to define, implement, and validate device trust, boot integrity, key management, and secure deployment throughout the product lifecycle.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
2 months ago

Systems Software Engineer, Security, First Party Hardware

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Job Summary

Join OpenAI’s Hardware security team as a Security Engineer for first-party AI hardware. You’ll own end-to-end security foundations across hardware, firmware, and system security for data-center-scale deployments, collaborating with silicon, firmware, manufacturing, and operations to define, implement, and validate device trust, boot integrity, key management, and secure deployment throughout the product lifecycle.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own security requirements, threat models, validation strategy, and launch-readiness evidence for first-party hardware platforms from early design through production deployment.
  • •Design and review secure boot, measured boot, roots of trust, platform firmware resilience, firmware signing, recovery, and anti-rollback strategies across heterogeneous devices.
  • •Own device identity, provisioning, enrollment, attestation, certificate lifecycle, and key-management requirements across manufacturing and data center bring-up.
  • •Harden management interfaces and operational access paths across BMCs, hosts, accelerators, switches, and service tooling, including TLS/mTLS, Redfish, gNMI, SSH, syslog, and break-glass workflows.
  • •Drive security requirements for manufacturing, supply chain, firmware/image signing, storage encryption, RMA, repair, and decommissioning processes.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 266,000 - 445,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of hands-on hardware security, embedded security, firmware security, platform security, or low-level systems security.
Experience:7+ yearsHardware securityEmbedded securityFirmware securityPlatform securityLow-level systems security
Skills:SecurityCryptographyTLSTLS/mTLSCertificatesSecurity reviewsHardware interfacesCC++RustFirmwareBootAttestationKey managementEncryptionMeasured boot
Tech Stack:CC++RustTLSTLS/mTLSBootBIOS/UEFIAttestationCryptographyPCIeSPII2CSSHRedfishGNMI

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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