{"id":123798,"url":"https://alion.io/job/openai-software-security-architect-operating-systems-consumer-devices","title":"Software Security Architect, Operating Systems | Consumer Devices","company":{"id":2,"name":"OpenAI","domain":"openai.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/openai","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":77,"open_postings":191,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.911,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":51,"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":268000,"max":342000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":342000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"Rust","optional":false},{"name":"Threat Modeling","optional":false},{"name":"Tool Use","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-25T18:36:19Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-25","last_verified_at":"2026-10-16T18:26:30Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":52,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":52},"description":"About the Team\nOpenAI Consumer Devices is building the next generation of products that bring powerful AI into people’s everyday lives. Guided by OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, our team combines world-class researchers, engineers, designers, and operators who care deeply about creating useful, intuitive, and responsible technology. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside exceptional people on ambitious, zero-to-one challenges at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI. This is a chance to help define an entirely new category of products-and shape how people experience AI in the future.\nThe Operating Systems team is critical in this mission, turning sophisticated hardware and AI capabilities into a reliable, trusted platform. Security is central to that work: we define trust boundaries, integrate hardware-backed protections, isolate sensitive context, and establish the guardrails that let AI applications and agents act safely, privately, and under user control.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for a Software Security Architect to define the security architecture for OpenAI’s next-generation operating system. You’ll work alongside hardware security architects and partner with operating system, silicon, firmware, privacy, and product teams to protect users, their devices, and their data.\nThis is a senior, hands-on role for someone who can connect operating system internals, hardware-backed security, and real-world product constraints. Your work will shape the platform’s trust model, protect sensitive information, and set the technical foundations for AI that is safe, private, and under user control.\nIn this role, you will:\nDefine the operating system’s security architecture, trust boundaries, privilege model, and protections for sensitive user data.\n\nPartner with hardware security architects to integrate roots of trust, secure elements, trusted execution environments, and processor security capabilities into the operating system.\n\nDesign foundational platform defenses, including secure boot, code signing, attestation, secure updates, key protection, and device recovery.\n\nEstablish isolation and access controls across the kernel, applications, system services, and AI workloads.\n\nDefine guardrails for how AI applications and agents access information, use sensors and tools, retain context, and act on a user’s behalf.\n\nLead threat modeling and architecture reviews across the platform, translating emerging threats into practical, enforceable requirements.\n\nPrototype solutions, review security-critical systems code, and guide engineering teams through complex technical and product tradeoffs.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nDeep experience designing or securing operating systems, kernels, embedded platforms, hypervisors, or other privileged systems software.\n\nComplex understanding of operating system internals, including memory protection, process isolation, executable loading, device drivers, and privilege boundaries.\n\nExperience building security architectures that span hardware, firmware, operating systems, applications, and cloud services.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\nBring practical expertise in secure boot, code signing, device identity, attestation, trusted execution, and hardware-backed key protection.\n\nCan write or review systems code in C, C++, Rust, or comparable languages, with a strong grasp of secure development and exploit mitigation.\n\nBuild rigorous threat models, influence cross-functional engineering teams, and communicate security tradeoffs clearly.\n\nCare deeply about user privacy, personal agency, and building systems that earn trust through their design.\n\nHelpful experience:\nShipping security technologies for consumer operating systems, mobile platforms, or connected devices.\n\nKernel hardening, memory-safety mitigations, virtualization-based security, or secure enclave integration.\n\nSecurity architecture for AI agents, sensitive-context isolation, permissioned tool use, or prompt-injection resistance.\n\nDevice provisioning, manufacturing security, secure recovery, or lifecycle security for hardware products.\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. Join us in shaping the future of technology.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6666,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Application Security","Generative Video","Code Intelligence","AI Research Labs"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-25T18:36:19Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 262 · green card filings: 3","filings_12m":262,"filings_prev_12m":114,"green_card_filings_12m":3,"median_offered_wage_usd":272217,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":49}],"liveness":{"score":23,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.529,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":51,"expected_fill_days":51,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":342000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/openai-software-security-architect-operating-systems-consumer-devices","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/openai-software-security-architect-operating-systems-consumer-devices.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T22:14:15Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3739,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fopenai-software-security-architect-operating-systems-consumer-devices"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fopenai-software-security-architect-operating-systems-consumer-devices"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fopenai-software-security-architect-operating-systems-consumer-devices"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/openai-software-security-architect-operating-systems-consumer-devices\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fopenai-software-security-architect-operating-systems-consumer-devices"}]}