# Security Preparedness Lead, Coding Agents

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $293k – $405k/yr
**Skills:** Threat Modeling, Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing, Ai Security, Software Development, Advanced Persistent Threats, Apts, Security Controls, Risk Assessment
**Posted:** 2026-05-18

> 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.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain threat models via which advanced attackers could compromise our coding assistants and automated security systems.
- Identify security investments that are especially critical to make in advance; for example, prioritizing by implementation lead-times, costs, and benefit.
- Partner with Security, Infrastructure, Research, Legal, and Preparedness to align on implementation plans and tradeoffs.
- Lead technical execution directly when needed, including prototyping controls, writing and reviewing software, and coordinating engineers across teams.
- Work with penetration testers to close gaps in defenses.

## Requirements
- Exceptional hands-on technical executor.
- Experience working with advanced persistent threat actors, or other capable cyberoffensive groups.
- Ability to creatively reason about non-standard security problems and design workable controls under tight constraints.
- Experience leading technical programs or teams.

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