软件工程师，隐私工程
Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering
关于团队
隐私工程团队构建系统和技术基础，用于管理OpenAI内部用户数据的了解、保留、访问和使用方式。我们与产品、数据、基础设施、安全和法律团队合作，将政策和信任承诺转化为持久的架构和可执行的控制措施。
我们的工作涵盖数据清单和映射、分类和血缘关系、保留和删除、访问治理、用途和使用控制、可审计性以及生命周期自动化。我们旨在使符合政策的数据处理成为默认设置，同时为团队提供清晰、可靠的构建和运营大规模产品的基础。
关于职位
我们正在寻找一位经验丰富的软件工程师，负责推动OpenAI内部用户数据治理的架构和执行。您将定义技术方向，构建共享平台和控制措施，并领导跨职能项目，使数据流可发现、政策可执行、所有权明确。此职位适合一位能够在这深度系统设计和全组织影响力之间灵活切换的高级工程师，能将模糊的需求转化为务实的路线图，并能够端到端地操作高信任度系统。
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在此职位中，您将：
- 设定跨数据映射、分类、血缘关系、保留、删除、访问和允许使用的用户数据治理的技术策略和架构。
- 设计并构建共享服务、API、元数据系统和政策执行机制，使治理控制措施保持一致、可扩展且可审计。
- 在产品、基础设施、分析和研究系统中建立用户数据、系统所有权、数据流和政策适用性的可靠清单。
- 与产品、数据、基础设施、安全和法律负责人合作，定义决策权，将需求转化为控制措施，并推动在各团队中的采用。
- 通过可衡量的控制措施、可观测性、迁移、异常处理、事件响应和持续改进来负责生产环境中的治理系统。
如果您具备以下条件，可能会在这个职位上表现出色：
- 在复杂生产环境中，有设计和运营大规模数据平台、隐私基础设施或治理系统的丰富经验。
- 曾主导过一个或多个数据治理领域（如元数据和血缘关系、保留）的架构和多团队执行。
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About the Team
The Privacy Engineering team builds the systems and technical foundations that govern how user data is understood, retained, accessed, and used across OpenAI. We partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal to translate policy and trust commitments into durable architecture and enforceable controls.
Our work spans data inventory and mapping, classification and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, purpose and usage controls, auditability, and lifecycle automation. We aim to make policy-aligned data handling the default while giving teams clear, reliable primitives for building and operating products at scale.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to drive the architecture and execution of user data governance across OpenAI. You will define technical direction, build shared platforms and controls, and lead cross-functional programs that make data flows discoverable, policies enforceable, and ownership explicit. This role is well suited to a senior engineer who can move between deep systems design and organization-wide influence, turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic roadmaps, and operate high-trust systems end to end.
This position is based in San Francisco. Relocation assistance is available.
In this role, you will:
- Set the technical strategy and architecture for user data governance across data mapping, classification, lineage, retention, deletion, access, and permitted usage.
- Design and build shared services, APIs, metadata systems, and policy-enforcement mechanisms that make governance controls consistent, scalable, and auditable.
- Establish reliable inventories of user data, system ownership, data flows, and policy applicability across products, infrastructure, analytics, and research systems.
- Partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal leaders to define decision rights, translate requirements into controls, and drive adoption across teams.
- Own governance systems in production through measurable controls, observability, migrations, exception handling, incident response, and continuous improvement.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have substantial experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms, privacy infrastructure, or governance systems in complex production environments.
- Have led architecture and multi-team execution for one or more data-governance domains, such as metadata and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, or data-use controls.
- Can translate ambiguous policy, legal, security, and product requirements into clear system boundaries, technical standards, phased roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Influence senior stakeholders and engineering teams without relying on formal authority, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and build durable cross-functional alignment.
- Take end-to-end ownership of high-trust systems, including correctness, scalability, auditability, operational resilience, and the developer and operator experience.
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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