Staff Software Engineer

Company: OpenMined

Job Category: Software Engineering / Privacy Tech / AI

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location Eligibility: Remote — USA, Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina

Salary: Competitive (nonprofit-adjusted; commensurate with experience)

Application Link: https://apply.workable.com/openmined/j/0C52D130E3/

Application Email: N/A Closing Date: Open until filled

About the Company: OpenMined is a nonprofit on a mission to build the public network for the world's non-public data — unlocking up to 1,000,000x more data for machine learning research by making it safe and private to use. They build open-source tools for privacy-preserving AI including PySyft and other federated learning frameworks.

Job Description: OpenMined is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to help build the infrastructure for private data access at scale. You will work on core platform components that enable privacy-preserving computation and federated data workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and maintain core platform components for privacy-preserving AI
• Contribute to PySyft and OpenMined's open-source ecosystem
• Collaborate with researchers and ML engineers to build scalable tooling
• Improve developer experience for data owners and data scientists using the platform
• Work in a mission-driven, async-first global team

Requirements:

• Demonstrated proficiency in Python (strongly preferred)
• Experience with distributed systems and large-scale software architecture
• Passion for privacy, open-source, and responsible AI
• Ability to work effectively in remote, async environments
• Experience with ML frameworks or privacy-preserving computation a strong plus

Skills Required: Python, distributed systems, open-source contribution, privacy-preserving ML, federated learning, async communication