Security Engineer, Host Assurance

OpenAI

San Francisco, United States
Remote
Host assurance platform
Bare-metal security
Machine identity
The Host Assurance team exists to make bare metal a dependable, scalable foundation for OpenAI: secure by default, verifiable in practice, and resilient across providers and operating models

Job Summary

  • The Host Assurance team exists to make bare metal a dependable, scalable foundation for OpenAI: secure by default, verifiable in practice, and resilient across providers and operating models.
  • Design, build, and operate components of the Host Assurance platform that establish trust in bare-metal hosts before they are eligible for production use.
  • This role is well suited for engineers who enjoy working across trust services, operating systems, hardware and firmware validation, and infrastructure security, and who are excited by ambiguous, high-impact problems at the boundary of hardware and large-scale systems.

Matching Summary

The Host Assurance team exists to make bare metal a dependable, scalable foundation for OpenAI: secure by default, verifiable in practice, and resilient across providers and operating models.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Host Assurance platform
  • bare-metal security
  • machine identity
  • host attestation
  • secure boot
  • firmware validation

Nice-to-have

  • building in ambiguous spaces
  • low ego
  • pragmatic security controls
  • self-directed

Key Requirements

  • Strong software engineering experience
  • Deep expertise in PKI, HSMs, or cryptography
  • Experience replacing fragile security mechanisms
  • Production quality code

Work Rights

Not specified

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