Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering at OpenAI
- Company: OpenAI
- Location: Remote / San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $230K – $325K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2026-07-15
- Technologies: OpenAI
About the role
About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds the systems and technical foundations that govern how user data is understood, retained, accessed, and used across OpenAI. We partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal to translate policy and trust commitments into durable architecture and enforceable controls. Our work spans data inventory and mapping, classification and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, purpose and usage controls, auditability, and lifecycle automation. We aim to make policy-aligned data handling the default while giving teams clear, reliable primitives for building and operating products at scale. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to drive the architecture and execution of user data governance across OpenAI.…
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