Software Engineer, Codex Security

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end product features for Codex Security, from developer-facing interfaces to APIs, backend services, and workflow tooling.
• Own ambiguous 0-to-1 projects across product pods, platform security controls, customer deployment workflows, and cyber model infrastructure.
• Translate security research and model capabilities into intuitive workflows that help teams find, validate, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities with high signal.
• Design scalable, observable systems for long-running analyses across large codebases and enterprise environments.
• Partner with product, security research, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to iterate quickly from real-world feedback.
• Help shape the technical direction and architecture of Codex Cyber as the team and product surface area grow.

Requirements

• Excellent software engineer with strong fundamentals and enough range to work across product, backend, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
• Enjoy building high-quality product and platform experiences across the full stack.
• High-agency, low-drama, and comfortable owning features from concept to production in a fast-moving environment.
• Built developer tools, workflow-heavy platforms, security products, internal infrastructure, or product features for technical users.
• Strong product instincts and care about making complex technical systems understandable and useful.
• Excited by security and AI.

Nice-to-Haves

• Direct experience in product security, application security, vulnerability research, defensive security, identity, SSO, or secure developer workflows.
• Like ambiguous 0-to-1 work and can turn messy requirements into crisp, scalable systems.

Key Technical Challenges

• Combining model outputs, security analysis, and user workflows into one cohesive product experience.
• Designing high-confidence validation and remediation flows that distinguish real issues from noisy or speculative findings.
• Scaling product and platform infrastructure for large repositories, complex enterprise environments, and long-running analyses.
• Creating developer-friendly interfaces and APIs that make advanced security capabilities understandable and actionable.
• Building platform controls and internal systems that help Codex Cyber move quickly while meeting OpenAI's bar for safety, security, and reliability.