Software Security Architect, Operating Systems | Consumer Devices

OpenAI Consumer Devices is building the next generation of products that bring powerful AI into peoples everyday lives. Guided by OpenAIs 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. Youll 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 productsand shape how people experience AI in the future.

The 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.

Were looking for a Software Security Architect to define the security architecture for OpenAIs next-generation operating system. Youll work alongside hardware security architects and partner with operating system silicon firmware privacy and product teams to protect users their devices and their data.

This 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 platforms trust model protect sensitive information and set the technical foundations for AI that is safe private and under user control.

• Define the operating systems security architecture trust boundaries privilege model and protections for sensitive user data.

• Partner with hardware security architects to integrate roots of trust secure elements trusted execution environments and processor security capabilities into the operating system.

• Design foundational platform defenses including secure boot code signing attestation secure updates key protection and device recovery.

• Establish isolation and access controls across the kernel applications system services and AI workloads.

• Define guardrails for how AI applications and agents access information use sensors and tools retain context and act on a users behalf.

• Lead threat modeling and architecture reviews across the platform translating emerging threats into practical enforceable requirements.

• Prototype solutions review security-critical systems code and guide engineering teams through complex technical and product tradeoffs.

• Deep experience designing or securing operating systems kernels embedded platforms hypervisors or other privileged systems software.

• Complex understanding of operating system internals including memory protection process isolation executable loading device drivers and privilege boundaries.

• Experience building security architectures that span hardware firmware operating systems applications and cloud services.

• Bring practical expertise in secure boot code signing device identity attestation trusted execution and hardware-backed key protection.

• Can write or review systems code in C C Rust or comparable languages with a strong grasp of secure development and exploit mitigation.

• Build rigorous threat models influence cross-functional engineering teams and communicate security tradeoffs clearly.

• Care deeply about user privacy personal agency and building systems that earn trust through their design.

• Shipping security technologies for consumer operating systems mobile platforms or connected devices.

• Kernel hardening memory-safety mitigations virtualization-based security or secure enclave integration.

• Security architecture for AI agents sensitive-context isolation permissioned tool use or prompt-injection resistance.

• Device provisioning manufacturing security secure recovery or lifecycle security for hardware products.

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OpenAI 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.

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