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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Cyber Frontier

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

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the technical roadmap for Codex Cyber’s security products, including evaluations, safeguards, trusted-defender workflows, and deployment decisions
  • Work with trusted defenders, customers, and partner teams to understand cyber use cases, evaluate risk, and turn feedback into product and research priorities
  • Shape cyber-specific model training and access patterns, including data, evaluations, validation, and deployment criteria
  • Build and validate systems for measuring cyber capabilities, monitoring misuse risk, and proving safeguards work in practice
  • Collaborate with Safety/Preparedness, Research, Security, Legal, Communications, Go-to-Market, and external partners on company-wide cyber priorities
  • Translate frontier cyber research into launch-ready tools, operational playbooks, and durable infrastructure for Codex and security products

Requirements

  • Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar languages
  • Experience building reliable systems in ambiguous, high-stakes domains
  • Experience in ML systems, security products, cyber evaluations, model training, safety engineering, or trusted customer deployments
  • Ability to navigate 0→1 environments and ambiguity
  • Ability to move fluidly between product launches, customer and defender partnerships, model training, evaluation science, and security research
  • Clear thinking about cyber capability, misuse risk, access patterns, safeguards, and deployment tradeoffs in high-stakes environments

Skills

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptMachine LearningCybersecurityModel TrainingSecurity EngineeringEvaluation SystemsSafeguardsRisk Assessment
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