OpenAI
Software Engineer, HSM Infrastructure Security, Consumer Devices
Seattle · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- A central focus of this role is hardening the boundary between our policy systems and the HSMs that protect sensitive cryptographic keys.
- Depending on your background, this may include HSM trusted applications, firmware services, cryptographic mechanisms, device drivers, PKCS#11 components, secure-provisioning protocols, or signing-policy enforcement systems.
- This is a hands-on software-engineering role.
Requirements
- Deep programming experience in C, C++, or Rust.
- You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have
- A strong track record of designing, implementing, debugging, and shipping production systems software.
- Experience with PKI, X.509 certificates, certificate authorities, certificate issuance, and certificate lifecycle protocols.
- Experience reasoning about concurrency, memory safety, privilege separation, hardware interfaces, failure modes, and side-channel or physical attack considerations.
- The ability to evaluate security designs and personally implement the software required to realize them.
- Experience with commercial or cloud HSM platforms such as Thales Luna, Entrust/nShield, Utimaco, Marvell LiquidSecurity, AWS CloudHSM, or comparable systems.
- Experience with PKCS#11, KMIP, OpenSSL providers or engines, secure-element APIs, or platform-native key-storage frameworks.
- Experience sustaining high-assurance security software in production.
Company info
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241.
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