Security Engineer, Host Assurance
About the Team Security is foundational to OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security organization protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products by building and operating deeply technical systems that must work reliably at massive scale.
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Security Engineer, Host Assurance at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team Security is foundational to OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security organization protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products by building and operating deeply technical systems that must work reliably at massive scale.
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- Design, build, and operate components of the Host Assurance platform that establish trust in bare-metal hosts before they are eligible for production use.
- Help ensure hosts are verifiably trustworthy from delivery and installation through secure bootstrap and readiness to join orchestration systems.
- Build and improve systems such as machine identity, certificate issuance and enrollment, HSM-backed or key-management-backed trust services, host attestation, measurement, and baseline verification tooling.
- Validate delivered hardware and firmware against vendor claims and continuously detect and manage drift over time.
- Eliminate insecure bootstrap patterns while preserving deployment throughput and operational reliability. Partner with provisioning, fleet, and orchestration teams to deliver paved paths where the secure approach is the easiest approach.
- Contribute code, reviews, operational improvements, and design guidance for foundational trust services that must be dependable at scale.
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- Design, build, and operate components of the Host Assurance platform that establish trust in bare-metal hosts before they are eligible for production use.
- Help ensure hosts are verifiably trustworthy from delivery and installation through secure bootstrap and readiness to join orchestration systems.
- Build and improve systems such as machine identity, certificate issuance and enrollment, HSM-backed or key-management-backed trust services, host attestation, measurement, and baseline verification tooling.
- Validate delivered hardware and firmware against vendor claims and continuously detect and manage drift over time.
- Eliminate insecure bootstrap patterns while preserving deployment throughput and operational reliability. Partner with provisioning, fleet, and orchestration teams to deliver paved paths where the secure approach is the easiest approach.
- Contribute code, reviews, operational improvements, and design guidance for foundational trust services that must be dependable at scale.
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