OpenAI · 1 week ago
Software Engineer, Privacy Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$225K/yr - $405K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Software Engineer who will design and operate technical systems that support legal compliance workflows, focusing on secure data processing and document review.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and operate data storage pipelines that can operate at scale
Build search & discovery services (e.g., Spark/Databricks, index layers, metadata catalogs) based on the needs of partner teams
Automate secure data transfers—encrypting, checksumming, and auditing exports to reviewers
Stand up locked‑down compute environments that balance usability with security controls
Instrument monitoring and KPIs that maintain accountability of data holds and productions
Collaborate cross‑functionally to codify SOPs, threat models, and chain‑of‑custody documentation that withstand scrutiny
Qualification
Required
Design and operate data storage pipelines that can operate at scale
Build search & discovery services (e.g., Spark/Databricks, index layers, metadata catalogs) based on the needs of partner teams
Automate secure data transfers—encrypting, checksumming, and auditing exports to reviewers
Stand up locked‑down compute environments that balance usability with security controls
Instrument monitoring and KPIs that maintain accountability of data holds and productions
Collaborate cross‑functionally to codify SOPs, threat models, and chain‑of‑custody documentation that withstand scrutiny
Have hands‑on experience building or operating large‑scale data‑lake or backup systems (Azure, AWS, GCP)
Know your way around Terraform or Pulumi, CI/CD, and can turn ad‑hoc legal requests into repeatable pipelines
Comfortable working with discovery workflows (legal holds, enterprise document collections, secure review) or eager to build expertise quickly
Able to communicate technical concepts — from storage governance to block-ID APIs — clearly to teams such as Legal, Engineering, and others
Have shipped secure solutions that balance speed, cost, and evidentiary defensibility—and can articulate the trade‑offs
Communicate crisply, document rigorously, and enjoy working across disciplines under tight deadlines
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
Recent News
2026-01-14
Company data provided by crunchbase