Software Engineer, HSM Infrastructure Security, Consumer Devices

About this role

We are hiring a Security Software Engineer to design and implement the hardware-backed security foundations used across OpenAI’s device ecosystem.

A central focus of this role is hardening the boundary between our policy systems and the HSMs that protect sensitive cryptographic keys. This boundary determines which operations may be performed, what may be signed, which policies must be satisfied, and how changes to trusted software and policy are authorized.

You will develop security-critical software and firmware within, or immediately adjacent to, an HSM trust boundary. Depending on your background, this may include HSM trusted applications, firmware services, cryptographic mechanisms, device drivers, PKCS#11 components, secure-provisioning protocols, or signing-policy enforcement systems.

This is a hands-on software-engineering role. You will be expected to design systems, write and review production code, debug across hardware and software boundaries, and carry projects from initial requirements through deployment. It is not an HSM administration, PKI operations, compliance, or architecture-only position.

In This Role, You Will

• Design and implement security-critical software and firmware for HSMs, secure elements, trusted execution environments, and hardware roots of trust.

• Build and harden the policy-to-HSM boundary responsible for authorizing certificate issuance and cryptographic signing operations.

• Develop HSM trusted applications, firmware components, host interfaces, device drivers, SDKs, or cryptographic service integrations.

• Implement or extend cryptographic interfaces such as PKCS#11, OpenSSL providers or engines, platform key-storage APIs, or comparable hardware-security interfaces.

• Build firmware and software that cryptographically enforces key generation, provisioning, usage, rotation, recovery, and destruction policies.