软件工程师，隐私工程（合法访问）
Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering (Lawful Access)
关于团队
隐私工程团队构建安全、可靠的系统，帮助OpenAI履行法律义务的同时保护用户数据。我们与OpenAI内部的法律和工程团队紧密合作，支持合法的数据访问请求和其他关键的法律流程。我们的工作将复杂的高风险流程转化为可审计且可靠的工程技术系统，具备清晰的人类监督和强大的隐私与安全控制。
关于职位
我们正在寻找一名全栈软件工程师，负责构建支持合法数据访问请求流程和法律运营的内部工具和数据管道。您将在产品和数据系统之间协作，使授权的数据检索和案件处理准确、高效且可审计。此职位适合那些喜欢将模糊的操作需求转化为持久系统的人员，对敏感数据处理有深刻关注，并希望提升技术可靠性以及这些流程操作人员的日常体验。
该职位位于加利福尼亚州旧金山，另外还考虑两个其他地点：英国伦敦和爱尔兰都柏林。我们采用每周3天在办公室工作的混合办公模式，并为新员工提供搬迁协助。
在此职位中，您将：
- 设计、构建和运维后端系统和流程工具，涵盖合法数据访问请求的整个生命周期，从接收和范围确定到授权检索、审查、准备和审计。
- 构建可靠的数据管道和接口，跨产品和数据存储，使授权团队能够准确且可重复地定位和处理正确的记录。
- 实现最小权限访问、审批节点、来源追踪、审计日志、数据最小化和安全的故障模式，用于敏感流程。
- 与法律和法律运营团队合作，将法律和操作需求转化为清晰的技术设计和直观的操作员体验。
- 识别负责任的自动化机会，减少重复性工作，同时保留人工审核、判断和问责。
- 通过测试、可观测性、事件响应、文档和持续的可靠性改进来负责生产系统。
- 在OpenAI的产品和义务不断演变的过程中，帮助定义可重用的隐私和法律基础设施架构和路线图。
如果您具备以下条件，可能会在这个职位上表现出色：
- 有构建或运营系统的经验
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About the Team
The Privacy Engineering team builds secure, reliable systems that help OpenAI meet its legal obligations while protecting user data. We partner closely with Legal and Engineering teams across OpenAI to support lawful data access requests and other critical legal workflows. Our work turns complex, high-stakes processes into auditable and dependable technical systems with clear human oversight and strong privacy and security controls.
About the Role
We’re looking for a full-stack Software Engineer to build the internal tools and data pipelines that power lawful data access request workflows and Legal Operations. You will work across product and data systems to make authorized retrieval and case handling accurate, efficient, and auditable. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys translating ambiguous operational requirements into durable systems, cares deeply about sensitive-data handling, and wants to improve both technical reliability and the day-to-day experience of the people operating these workflows.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, with two additional locations under consideration: London, UK, and Dublin, Ireland. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the full lifecycle of lawful data access requests, from intake and scoping through authorized retrieval, review, preparation, and audit.
- Build reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores so authorized teams can locate and handle the right records accurately and reproducibly.
- Implement least-privilege access, approval gates, provenance, audit trails, data minimization, and safe failure modes for sensitive workflows.
- Partner with Legal and Legal Operations to translate legal and operational requirements into clear technical designs and intuitive operator experiences.
- Identify responsible automation opportunities that reduce repetitive work while preserving human review, judgment, and accountability.
- Own production systems through testing, observability, incident response, documentation, and continuous reliability improvements.
- Help define the architecture and roadmap for reusable privacy and legal-infrastructure foundations as OpenAI’s products and obligations evolve.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have experience building or operating systems for lawful data access requests and understand the domain’s legal-process lifecycle, privacy and security constraints, auditability requirements, and operational sensitivities.
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience building production services or data-intensive systems.
- Ability to reason carefully about correctness, authorization, security, and privacy when working with sensitive data.
- A track record of turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic plans and communicating technical tradeoffs clearly.
- End-to-end ownership, including operating what you build, and comfort learning unfamiliar products and domains.
- Care for operator experience and a drive to make complex workflows safer, clearer, and more efficient.
- Experience collaborating across Engineering, Legal, operations, Privacy, and Security stakeholders.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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