Location

San Francisco; Seattle

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Security

Compensation

• $347K – $385K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

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. Our work underpins OpenAI’s commitments around safety, privacy, and security across research, products, and emerging platforms.

About the Role

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Lead, Host Assurance to own and scale the trust foundations for bare-metal platforms across OpenAI’s global infrastructure. This is a player-coach role for a deeply hands-on builder and proven people leader who owns the Host Assurance charter end-to-end —designing, building, and operating the core security infrastructure that establishes trust in hardware platforms before they are eligible to run workloads.

Responsibilities

• Own host assurance outcomes by defining and evolving the baseline security properties required for bare-metal hosts to be eligible for production use.

• Ensure hosts are verifiably trustworthy from delivery and installation through secure bootstrap and readiness to join orchestration systems.

• Design, implement, and operate the Host Assurance platform, including: HSM-backed services and key-management infrastructure, PKI and certificate-issuance systems that eliminate static credentials, and host identity, attestation, and measurement 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.

• Set and uphold a high bar for reliability, resilience, and operational hygiene across foundational trust services. Lead incident response and post-incident learning when issues arise, driving systemic improvements that keep these systems dependable at scale.

• Lead, mentor, and directly manage a small team of senior engineers across PKI, operating systems, hardware security, and platform engineering. Hire and scale the Host Assurance function deliberately and proportionately as OpenAI’s compute footprint and platform ambitions grow.

• Act as a hands-on technical leader,

What You Will Do

• Design, implement, and operate the Host Assurance platform

• Validate delivered hardware and firmware against vendor claims

• Eliminate insecure bootstrap patterns

• Set and uphold a high bar for reliability, resilience, and operational hygiene

• Lead, mentor, and directly manage a small team of senior engineers

• Act as a hands-on technical leader

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