Software Engineer, Private Computing is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $230K - $385K. Posted on Aug 20, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re looking for software engineers to design, build, and scale novel privacy features and infrastructure across ChatGPT, API, and future consumer devices. In this role, you will: - Ship fast while balancing difficult trade-offs in complex domains - Build core abstractions for trusted execution environments and end-to-end-encryption - Build product features for private inference and storage across ChatGPT, API, and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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