Senior Software Engineer – AI Oversight

• Design, build, and ship core infrastructure for privacy-preserving AI evaluation, mostly in Python
• Build and strengthen secure enclave (TEE) solutions
• Extend PySyft, the open-source library, including workers and verified receipts
• Deploy and support software in partner environments, including frontier labs, evaluators, and governments
• Improve deployment reliability as the product expands from one production deployment to several
• Improve reliability, scale, and user experience
• Write clean, tested, readable code and review teammates' work
• Turn ambiguous requirements into clear designs and explain trade-offs to engineers and non-engineers
• Use AI coding tools to move quickly while maintaining quality
• Work closely with the Technical Lead Manager for AI Oversight
• Work directly with organizations to deploy software while keeping their data private and under their control

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience, with strong Python skills
• Excellent hands-on coding: write clean, reliable, readable, and well-tested code daily
• Strong understanding of software architecture, systems design, and engineering trade-offs
• Strong communication skills, including clearly and concisely explaining technical ideas, timelines, risks, and trade-offs
• Full-stack experience on at least one project, including backend, data, frontend, and deployment
• Experience with CI/CD, debugging complex systems, and cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with security, scalability, and reliability considerations
• Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar concepts and turn them into practical solutions
• Collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback on a small, fully remote team
• Preferred: secure enclaves (TEEs), confidential computing, or other security work
• Preferred: distributed systems
• Preferred: deploying software into other organizations' environments
• Preferred: Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as Google Cloud or AWS
• Preferred: AI safety, privacy-enhancing technologies, or language models
• Preferred: open-source contributions
• Preferred: building products for developers
• Preferred: startup experience
• Preferred: Rust, Go, or C++ for performance-critical work
• Ability to work hours overlapping substantially with US Eastern business hours, with local time between one hour behind and two hours ahead of ET

• Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focused on social impact rather than profit, offering the chance to make a meaningful difference in the world.
• Open Source Contribution: Make a real impact by contributing to an Open Source project that benefits a broad community.
• Collaborative Global Team: Join a dynamic, international team that values collaboration and diversity.
• Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the autonomy to structure your work hours around what best fits your life and productivity.
• Fully Remote Work: Work remotely within the location requirements for this role.