OpenAI
Research Engineer, Privacy
San Francisco · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
AlgorithmsMachine LearningPyTorchResearch
About the role
- As a part of the Privacy Engineering Team, you will work on the frontlines of safeguarding user data while ensuring the usability and efficiency of our AI systems.
- This position is located in San Francisco.
- The Privacy Engineering Team at OpenAI is committed to integrating privacy as a foundational element in OpenAI's mission of advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Responsibilities
- Develop internal libraries, evaluation suites, and documentation that make cutting-edge privacy techniques accessible to engineering and research teams.
- Lead deep-dive investigations into the privacy-performance trade-offs of large models, publishing insights that inform model-training and product-safety decisions.
- Communicate crisply, document rigorously, and care deeply about building AI systems that respect user privacy while pushing the frontiers of capability.
- Collaborate across Security, Policy, Product, and Legal to translate evolving regulatory requirements into practical technical safeguards and tooling.
Requirements
- Have hands-on research or production experience with PETs.
Benefits
- Design and prototype privacy-preserving machine-learning algorithms (e.g., differential privacy, secure aggregation, federated learning) that can be deployed at OpenAI scale.
- Are fluent in modern deep-learning stacks (PyTorch/JAX) and comfortable turning cutting-edge papers into reliable, well-tested code.
Company info
- Our focus is on all OpenAI products and systems handling user data, striving to uphold the highest standards of data privacy and security.
- We build essential production services, develop novel privacy-preserving techniques, and equip cross-functional engineering and research partners with the necessary tools to ensure responsible data use.
- Our approach to prioritizing responsible data use is integral to OpenAI's mission of safely introducing AGI that offers widespread benefits.
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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