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Research Engineer, Privacy

About the TeamThe Privacy Engineering Team at OpenAI is committed to integrating privacy as a foundational element in OpenAI's mission of advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Our focus is on all OpenAI products and systems handl

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-14T18:44:03.082+00:00

OpenAI's Privacy Engineering Team is hiring a research engineer to build privacy-preserving machine-learning methods at production scale. The work covers differential privacy, secure aggregation and federated learning, plus measuring model robustness against membership inference, inversion and data-memorization attacks. The person will build internal libraries and evaluation suites, define privacy standards and threat models across the ML lifecycle, and partner with security, policy, product and legal. The posting asks for hands-on experience with privacy-enhancing technologies, PyTorch or JAX fluency, and published or implemented privacy research. San Francisco, hybrid; relocation assistance available.