系统软件工程师，安全，第一方硬件
Systems Software Engineer, Security, First Party Hardware
关于团队
OpenAI的硬件部门为先进AI工作负载的独特需求开发AI原生芯片和系统级解决方案。在Jalapeño等项目的基础上，该团队正在开发下一代AI原生芯片和高度集成的系统，以支持前沿模型的下一次迭代。通过芯片、系统、工具和方法的协同设计，该团队帮助为OpenAI的超算平台交付更快、更高效且可投入生产的硬件。
关于职位
我们正在寻找一名安全工程师加入我们的第一方硬件团队。在此职位中，您将负责OpenAI第一方AI硬件系统的端到端安全基础，涵盖硬件安全、嵌入式安全、系统安全以及数据中心规模的实际部署。
您将与芯片、硬件、固件、基础设施、制造、运营和安全团队合作，定义并交付系统级设备信任。这包括启动完整性、设备身份、配置、认证、管理平面安全、存储加密、调试控制、固件更新和恢复、RMA以及退役。您将负责将威胁模型转化为需求，将需求转化为实现，并将实现转化为可以支持发布决策的验证证据。
地点：加利福尼亚州旧金山（混合办公：每周3天现场办公）
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在这个职位中，您将：
- 从早期设计到生产部署，负责第一方硬件平台的安全需求、威胁模型、验证策略和发布就绪证据。
- 设计并审查跨异构设备的可信引导、度量引导、信任根、平台固件弹性、固件签名、恢复和防回滚策略。
- 在制造和数据中心启动过程中，负责设备身份、配置、注册、认证、证书生命周期和密钥管理需求。
- 强化BMC、主机、加速器、交换机和服务工具中的管理接口和操作访问路径，包括TLS/mTLS、Redfish、gNMI、SSH、syslog和紧急访问流程。
- 推动制造、供应链、固件/镜像签名、存储加密、RMA、维修和退役流程的安全需求。
- 构建并推动对安全关键硬件和固件行为的验证，包括调试锁定、生命周期转换、更新
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ABOUT THE TEAM
OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're seeking a Security Engineer to join our First-Party Hardware team. In this role, you will own the end-to-end security foundation for OpenAI's first-party AI hardware systems, working across hardware security, embedded security, system security, and practical deployment at data center scale.
You will partner with silicon, hardware, firmware, infrastructure, manufacturing, operations, and security teams to define and deliver system-level device trust. This includes boot integrity, device identity, provisioning, attestation, management-plane security, storage encryption, debug controls, firmware update and recovery, RMA, and decommissioning. You will be accountable for turning threat models into requirements, requirements into implementation, and implementation into validation evidence that can support launch decisions.
Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid: 3 days/week onsite)
Relocation assistance available.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:
- Own security requirements, threat models, validation strategy, and launch-readiness evidence for first-party hardware platforms from early design through production deployment.
- Design and review secure boot, measured boot, roots of trust, platform firmware resilience, firmware signing, recovery, and anti-rollback strategies across heterogeneous devices.
- Own device identity, provisioning, enrollment, attestation, certificate lifecycle, and key-management requirements across manufacturing and data center bring-up.
- Harden management interfaces and operational access paths across BMCs, hosts, accelerators, switches, and service tooling, including TLS/mTLS, Redfish, gNMI, SSH, syslog, and break-glass workflows.
- Drive security requirements for manufacturing, supply chain, firmware/image signing, storage encryption, RMA, repair, and decommissioning processes.
- Build and drive validation for security-critical hardware and firmware behavior, including debug lockout, lifecycle transitions, update paths, attestation evidence, and recovery flows.
- Partner with vendors and contract manufacturers to turn security requirements into concrete deliverables, test evidence, and launch gates.
- Drive end-to-end closure across design, implementation, manufacturing readiness, deployment readiness, fleet operations, and incident response when security issues arise.
- Investigate hardware and firmware security issues, assess exploitability and operational risk, and drive durable fixes with engineering owners.
YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU HAVE:
- 7+ years of hands-on experience, or exceptional accomplishments demonstrating equivalent expertise, in hardware security, embedded security, firmware security, platform security, or low-level systems security.
- Experience shipping or securing real hardware platforms, embedded devices, servers, accelerators, networking systems, BMCs, bootloaders, BIOS/UEFI, RTOS, kernels, or firmware update systems.
- Deep familiarity with secure boot, measured boot, TPMs, hardware roots of trust, device attestation, key provisioning, debug interfaces, firmware signing, recovery, or lifecycle-state design.
- Strong applied-cryptography judgment for secure boot, attestation, TLS/mTLS, key storage, certificate lifecycle, storage encryption, and long-range transitions such as post-quantum readiness.
- Ability to read and write systems code in C, C++, or Rust and to use that skill to review, prototype, test, or debug security-critical behavior.
- Comfort with hardware-software interfaces such as SPI, I2C, SMBus, PCIe, UART, JTAG, SWD, GPIOs, TPMs, and board-level debug tools.
- Proven track record driving security improvements with hardware, firmware, infrastructure, manufacturing, operations, and partner teams.
- Experience owning broad, ambiguous security programs end to end, including translating risk into technical requirements, validation plans, and accountable engineering decisions.
- Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to turn ambiguous security risks into actionable requirements, design reviews, tests, and decisions.
To comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidates for this role may need to meet certain legal status requirements as provided in those laws and regulations.
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.
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