Software Engineer, Host Assurance is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $266K - $445K. Posted on Sep 5, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer, Host Assurance to build and operate the services, APIs, and host software that establish and maintain trust in our compute infrastructure. You will own production software from design and implementation through testing, rollout, observability, and operation. Your work will support capabilities such as machine identity, certificate issuance and enrollment, secure bootstrap, and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
Hiring at OpenAI
OpenAI has 838 open roles right now, 31 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Data & Research. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $308K. See all its roles

