Software Engineer, Host Assurance

OpenAI
San Francisco, Seattle, United States
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 266,000 - 445,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical judgment","Reasoning across system boundaries","Operational safety","Self-directed","Cross-disciplinary collaboration"]

Build and operate the Host Assurance platform that establishes trust in OpenAI compute infrastructure before hosts run production workloads. You’ll design and own services/APIs that handle machine identity, certificate issuance and enrollment, secure bootstrap, host attestation, and baseline verification across bare metal and VMs. Partner with infrastructure and confidential-computing efforts, validate hardware/firmware trust signals, and drive observability, reliability, and secure failure behaviors in fast-moving production environments.

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Software Engineer, Host Assurance

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Job Summary

Build and operate the Host Assurance platform that establishes trust in OpenAI compute infrastructure before hosts run production workloads. You’ll design and own services/APIs that handle machine identity, certificate issuance and enrollment, secure bootstrap, host attestation, and baseline verification across bare metal and VMs. Partner with infrastructure and confidential-computing efforts, validate hardware/firmware trust signals, and drive observability, reliability, and secure failure behaviors in fast-moving production environments.
Location: San Francisco, Seattle, United States
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate Host Assurance components that establish trust in bare-metal and VM hosts before production use.
  • •Ensure hosts are verifiably trustworthy from delivery/installation through secure bootstrap and readiness to join orchestration systems.
  • •Build and improve systems for machine identity, certificate issuance/enrollment, HSM- or key-management-backed trust services, host attestation, and verification tooling.
  • •Validate hardware and firmware against vendor claims and continuously detect and manage trust drift over time.
  • •Own services end-to-end: readiness criteria, testing under load/failure, monitoring and actionable alerts, staged rollouts, recovery procedures, and maintain runbooks; participate in on-call.

Pay and Benefits

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

Key Requirements

  • •Strong software engineering experience building and operating reliable production systems at scale.
  • •Depth in distributed systems, backend/platform engineering, operating systems, or infrastructure security.
  • •Practical experience reasoning across services/APIs and host software, including failure modes and safe failure behavior.
  • •Experience implementing production-quality code and maintaining long-term operational reliability.
  • •Experience supporting critical production systems at scale, including on-call.
Skills:Technical judgmentReasoning across system boundariesOperational safetySelf-directedCross-disciplinary collaboration
Tech Stack:APIsMachine identityPKIHSMCertificate issuanceCertificate enrollmentKey-managementHost attestationSecure bootObservabilityMonitoringAlertsRunbooks

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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