OpenAI

Software Engineer, Codex -Enterprise Controls

San Francisco · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago

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About the role

As Codex adoption grows inside large organizations, customers are increasingly trusting Codex with their most valuable assets: proprietary codebases, internal documentation, customer data, and sensitive workflows.
You will work across identity, access, encryption, policy enforcement, auditability, and admin controls.
One that you can pair with, delegate to, or even ask to take on future tasks proactively.

Build backend systems that protect enterprise customer data, including encryption, key management, access controls, data isolation, retention controls, and secure data handling patterns.
Design and operate the Codex enterprise control plane, enabling administrators to configure, enforce, and audit how Codex is used across users, teams, projects, and environments.
Build policy and governance systems that allow enterprises to enable or disable specific Codex capabilities, define organizational constraints, and safely roll out new AI-powered workflows.
Develop reliable, observable, and scalable services across identity, authorization, configuration, audit logging, compliance, and enterprise administration.
Have strong backend software engineering fundamentals and experience building production-grade distributed systems.
Enjoy building foundational platform capabilities that unlock many product surfaces and customer workflows.
This role will help build the enterprise control plane that makes Codex secure, governable, and trustworthy at scale.
You will design and operate backend systems that give enterprise administrators visibility and control over how Codex is used across their organization.

Have experience with security, identity, authorization, encryption, key management, policy systems, or enterprise governance.

With Codex we're building an AI software engineer.
Our team is a fast-moving group within OpenAI, bringing together research, engineering, design, and product.
We iteratively build the Codex agent harness and product to get the most out of the model, and we iteratively train the model to be great at complex software engineering tasks.
The Codex team is responsible for building state-of-the-art AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents for developers and non-developers alike.
We operate across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure; owning the full lifecycle of experimentation, deployment, and iteration on novel coding capabilities.
Codex Enterprise builds the ecosystem, governance, and enterprise capabilities that help Codex spread across developers, teams, and organizations worldwide.
The Enterprise Controls team owns the systems that allow companies to safely deploy Codex across their organization while protecting their most sensitive code, data, and internal knowledge.

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