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Founded in 2017, we've grown into a global community of over 18,000 members working to ensure that privacy protection and AI innovation reinforce each other rather than undermine one another. We are driven by a simple challenge: the most valuable data for solving humanity's greatest challenges remains locked away due to privacy concerns, and we can change that through technology rather than compromise.\nAbout the Role\nOpenMined is a nonprofit building open-source infrastructure for federated AI. Our AI Oversight team is the only team in the world working on external access to frontier AI labs. We build the privacy-preserving infrastructure that lets independent evaluators run evaluations on frontier AI models without exposing the models or anyone's private data.\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, reporting to the Technical Lead Manager, AI Oversight, you'll build core parts of this system and the products on top of it. 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