Distributed Systems Engineer, Security

OpenAI is at the forefront of artificial intelligence development, operating some of the world's largest GPU clusters. As a Distributed Systems Engineer focusing on Security, you'll play a crucial role in protecting OpenAI's work from potential misuse. This senior position involves building large-scale production-grade distributed systems to secure OpenAI's massive fleet while maintaining performance and usability.

You'll be joining a diverse team of engineers, developers, and security advisers, working on both Go, Python, and Rust stacks. The role demands expertise in building infrastructure and primitives for securing both bare metal and cloud infrastructure, utilizing modern approaches like trusted computing. As an early member of the security engineering team, your decisions will significantly impact the organization's present and future.

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems, strong software engineering skills, and a deep understanding of security-performance tradeoffs. You'll be responsible for profiling, optimizing, and designing scalable solutions while keeping security transparent to engineers and researchers.

OpenAI offers an exceptional compensation package, including a competitive salary range of $300K-$885K, generous equity, and comprehensive benefits. These include full medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, 401(k) matching, extensive parental leave, and annual learning stipends. The position is remote-based in the US, offering flexibility while working on cutting-edge AI technology that aims to benefit humanity.

The company maintains a strong commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, welcoming perspectives from all backgrounds. This is an opportunity to shape the future of AI technology while ensuring its safe and beneficial deployment to the world.