Software Security Architect, Operating Systems | Consumer DevicesPosted today$268K–$342K

The opportunity

OpenAI 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…

What you'll do

  • Define the operating system’s 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 user’s behalf.

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

What they're looking for

  • 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.