OpenAI
Systems Software Engineer, Security, First Party Hardware
About this role
OpenAI seeks a Security Engineer to design and own end-to-end security for first-party AI hardware systems, spanning boot integrity, device identity, attestation, firmware security, and data center-scale deployment. You'll partner across hardware, firmware, and operations teams to turn threat models into validated, production-ready security architectures.
What you'll do
- Define security requirements, threat models, and validation strategies for hardware platforms from design through production
- Design secure boot, measured boot, roots of trust, and firmware resilience mechanisms across heterogeneous devices
- Own device identity, provisioning, enrollment, attestation, and key-management across manufacturing and deployment
- Harden management interfaces (BMCs, Redfish, SSH, mTLS) and operational access paths
- Drive security requirements for manufacturing, supply chain, firmware signing, encryption, and RMA/decommissioning
- Investigate hardware/firmware security issues, assess risk, and drive fixes across engineering teams
What they're looking for
- Hardware and embedded systems security (7+ years)
- Secure boot, measured boot, TPMs, and hardware roots of trust
- Systems programming in C, C++, or Rust
- Applied cryptography for boot, attestation, TLS/mTLS, and key lifecycle
- Hardware-software interfaces (SPI, I2C, PCIe, JTAG, UART, board-level debug tools)
- Experience shipping secure hardware platforms or accelerators
- Cross-functional collaboration and threat modeling
- End-to-end security program ownership and technical communication
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement (3 days/week onsite in San Francisco)
- Relocation assistance available
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OpenAI
OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.
View all jobs at OpenAILikely interview questions
- Walk us through a hardware or firmware security vulnerability you've discovered in production. How did you assess the risk, and what was your approach to fixing it across the fleet?
- Describe your experience designing or hardening a secure boot chain. What threat models did you consider, and how did you validate the implementation?