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Secure Manufacturing & Stealth Investigator

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Lead complex investigations into leaks, insider risks, supply chain compromises, and adversarial activity affecting OpenAI's secure manufacturing, stealth programs, unreleased hardware, and prototypes. Requires 8+ years investigative experience across cyber, physical, and operational domains.

288k – 425k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOESecurity Engineering
OpenAI

Staff Security Reliability Engineer

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Senior technical owner designing, building, and operating secure, reliable infrastructure-as-code platforms for identity, access, and shared services. Requires 10+ years of hands-on SRE experience in high-reliability on-prem/hybrid environments.

293k – 385k/yr
Hybrid10+ YOESecurity Engineering
OpenAI

Threat Modeler, Preparedness

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Own OpenAI’s holistic approach to identifying, modeling, and forecasting frontier risks from frontier AI systems. Develop threat models across misuse and alignment domains and translate them into actionable mitigation priorities.

325k – 325k/yr
On-site7+ YOESecurity Engineering
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Systems Software Engineer, Security, First Party Hardware

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Security Engineer owning end-to-end hardware, firmware, and system security for OpenAI's first-party AI accelerators and servers. Requires 7+ years in hardware/embedded security and strong systems programming skills.

266k – 445k/yr
Hybrid7+ YOESecurity Engineering
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Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Build and operate backend and data systems for real-time fraud/abuse detection, investigation, and enforcement at OpenAI. Requires 5+ years backend engineering and 2+ years fraud/abuse experience.

230k – 385k/yr
On-site5+ YOESecurity Engineering
OpenAI

Software Engineer, Cyber Frontier

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Build AI-powered security products and evaluation systems that help trusted defenders respond to cyber threats while ensuring responsible deployment of frontier AI models.

230k – 325k/yr
HybridSecurity Engineering
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Security Preparedness Lead, Coding Agents

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Lead security efforts to protect OpenAI's internal AI coding agents from advanced cyber threats including APTs and insider risks. Requires strong hands-on technical skills in threat modeling, prototyping defenses, and coordinating cross-team security initiatives.

293k – 405k/yr
HybridSecurity Engineering
OpenAI

Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Identify compromise paths from future AI agents, design long-lead-time security controls, and stress-test defenses via evaluations and penetration tests. Requires deep security/infrastructure expertise plus strong software engineering skills.

293k – 405k/yr
HybridEntry levelSecurity Engineering
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Model Policy Manager

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Defines and maintains policies for AI model behavior in high-risk domains like agentic systems and user safety. Collaborates with research, engineering, and product teams to operationalize policies into measurable safeguards using empirical data and red-teaming.

207k – 295k/yr
HybridSecurity Engineering
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Model Policy, Frontier Cyber Risk

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Develops and maintains AI model policies for high-risk cybersecurity domains, translating threat models into behavioral specifications, evaluations, and mitigations. Collaborates with research, engineering, and safety teams to ensure technically grounded, enforceable safeguards against dual-use risks.

207k – 295k/yr
HybridSecurity Engineering
OpenAI

Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +2

Designs and builds systems to proactively detect and enforce against product abuse using data science, ML, and investigations. Collaborates cross-functionally on monitoring new/existing products and responding to critical escalations. Requires 4+ years in technical analysis with SQL/Python.

198k – 425k/yr
Hybrid4+ YOESecurity Engineering
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Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +1

Conducts deep investigations into sophisticated threat actors misusing AI models and targeting OpenAI, leveraging OSINT, telemetry, and scripting to identify disruptions. Builds scalable tooling and automations to enhance detection and safety, partnering cross-functionally for impact.

234k – 385k/yr
RemoteSecurity Engineering
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GRC Program Manager, US Government Compliance

OpenAIWashington, DC

Leads US government compliance programs, driving FedRAMP and agency ATOs for OpenAI products. Collaborates with engineers on security controls, documentation, and audits in highly regulated environments. Requires 5+ years compliance experience and deep USG framework knowledge.

162k – 310k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOESecurity Engineering
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Software Engineer, Security Observability

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +2

Build scalable systems and data pipelines for security observability, enhancing detection, forensics, and compliance. Requires strong engineering in Python/Golang, Terraform, Azure, and data pipelines with a generalist SRE mindset.

325k – 405k/yr
RemoteSecurity Engineering
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Security Engineer, Host Assurance

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +1

Builds and operates Host Assurance platform to establish trust in bare-metal hosts for OpenAI's global infrastructure. Requires strong software engineering, deep expertise in PKI/HSM/cryptography/secure boot/host attestation, and ability to work across hardware-software boundaries at scale.

293k – 385k/yr
HybridSecurity Engineering
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Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +3

Leads architecture and implementation of planet-scale security services like authN/Z, proxies, and key management for OpenAI's GPU clusters, multi-cloud infra, and AI models. Requires expertise in secure distributed systems, cloud platforms, and cross-team leadership.

278k – 490k/yr
RemoteSecurity Engineering
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Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +3

Principal Security Engineer leads security for OpenAI's infrastructure including GPU clusters, multi-cloud, datacenters, and Kubernetes. Drives strategy, builds controls against advanced threats, and mentors teams with deep cloud and on-prem expertise.

278k – 490k/yr
RemoteSecurity Engineering
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Researcher, Automated Red Teaming

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +1

Leads automated red teaming efforts to discover failure modes in frontier AI models, focusing on cyber, bio, and loss-of-control risks. Builds scalable systems and partners across teams to implement mitigations reducing catastrophic harm.

295k – 445k/yr
On-siteSecurity Engineering
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Global Detection and Response Lead

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Leads global cybersecurity detection and response operations at OpenAI, overseeing monitoring, incident response, and team building. Requires 10+ years in cybersecurity, deep expertise in detection engineering and observability stacks, and US security clearance eligibility.

347k – 490k/yr
On-site10+ YOESecurity Engineering
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Security Engineer, Detection and Response

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Builds and operates detection and response systems to protect OpenAI's sensitive assets across endpoints, cloud, Kubernetes, and datacenter infrastructure. Requires hands-on threat detection, incident response experience, and expertise in modern cloud platforms and automation.

293k – 385k/yr
On-siteSecurity Engineering
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Security Engineer, Insider Threat Detection & Response

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Security Engineer focused on insider threat detection and response, building automated detection workflows, tuning rules, and partnering on investigations for AI infrastructure. Requires 5+ years experience in detection/response, OS/cloud familiarity, and scripting proficiency.

230k – 385k/yr
On-site5+ YOESecurity Engineering
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Offensive Security Engineer, Agent Security

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +3

Principal-level Offensive Security Engineer conducts red/purple team operations and penetration testing on AI agent products like Codex and Operator, hunting vulnerabilities in app-infra-model interactions and collaborating with defensive teams to strengthen security.

278k – 490k/yr
Remote7+ YOESecurity Engineering
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Software Engineer - Privacy & Compliance

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +1

Builds backend systems to enforce data privacy, automate compliance, and implement distributed authorization mechanisms. Requires 5+ years experience in backend/infrastructure with languages like Python or Go, plus familiarity with privacy regulations.

230k – 385k/yr
On-site5+ YOESecurity Engineering
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Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +3

Designs and builds security controls for infrastructure including GPU clusters, multi-cloud setups, datacenters, Kubernetes, and networks to protect AI models and data from advanced threats. Requires deep security expertise, cloud platform knowledge, and proactive problem-solving across on-prem and cloud environments.

184k – 385k/yr
RemoteSecurity Engineering
OpenAI

Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +2

Designs and builds production-grade security services like auth systems, proxies, and key management for OpenAI's GPU clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, and AI workloads. Requires strong software engineering in Python/Go/Rust, experience with critical security infra, and cloud security expertise.

184k – 385k/yr
RemoteSecurity Engineering
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Software Engineer, Privacy

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Builds secure backend systems for privacy and security in API products and consumer apps. Conducts threat modeling, privacy reviews, compliance audits, and incident response while collaborating cross-functionally.

230k – 325k/yr
HybridSecurity Engineering
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Security Engineer, Agent Security

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Designs and implements security frameworks, policies, and controls for agentic AI systems, including threat modeling, isolation techniques, and safety monitoring. Requires strong systems programming, cloud security expertise, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-paced environment.

293k – 385k/yr
HybridSecurity Engineering
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Security Engineer, Application Security

OpenAISan Francisco, CA +2

Identifies and mitigates application security vulnerabilities through code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments. Collaborates with development teams to integrate secure coding practices and provides guidance on threats and remediation.

260k – 385k/yr
HybridSecurity Engineering