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Our focus is on all OpenAI products and systems handling user data, striving to uphold the highest standards of data privacy and security.\nWe 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.\nAbout the Role\nAs 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. You will help us understand and implement the latest research in privacy-enhancing technologies such as differential privacy, federated learning, and data memorization. Moreover, you will focus on investigating the interaction between privacy and machine learning, developing innovative techniques to improve data anonymization, and preventing model inversion and membership inference attacks.\nThis position is located in San Francisco. Relocation assistance is available.\nIn this role, you will:\nDesign and prototype privacy-preserving machine-learning algorithms (e.g., differential privacy, secure aggregation, federated learning) that can be deployed at OpenAI scale.\n\nMeasure and strengthen model robustness against privacy attacks such as membership inference, model inversion, and data memorization leaks-balancing utility with provable guarantees.\n\nDevelop internal libraries, evaluation suites, and documentation that make cutting-edge privacy techniques accessible to engineering and research teams.\n\nLead deep-dive investigations into the privacy-performance trade-offs of large models, publishing insights that inform model-training and product-safety decisions.\n\nDefine and codify privacy standards, threat models, and audit procedures that guide the entire ML lifecycle-from dataset curation to post-deployment monitoring.\n\nCollaborate across Security, Policy, Product, and Legal to translate evolving regulatory requirements into practical technical safeguards and tooling.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\nHave hands-on research or production experience with PETs.\n\nAre fluent in modern deep-learning stacks (PyTorch/JAX) and comfortable turning cutting-edge papers into reliable, well-tested code.\n\nEnjoy stress-testing models-probing them for private data leakage-and can explain complex attack vectors to non-experts with clarity.\n\nHave a track record of publishing (or implementing) novel privacy or security work and relish bridging the gap between academia and real-world systems.\n\nThrive in fast-moving, cross-disciplinary environments where you alternate between open-ended research and shipping production features under tight deadlines.\n\nCommunicate crisply, document rigorously, and care deeply about building AI systems that respect user privacy while pushing the frontiers of capability.\n\nAbout OpenAI\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\nFor additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.\nOpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy\nAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. 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