# Security Engineer, Agent Security

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $293k – $385k/yr
**Skills:** Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, Container Security, Kernel-Level Hardening, Network Security, Sandboxing, Policy Enforcement, AWS, Azure, GCP, Ai/Ml Security
**Posted:** 2025-07-15

> 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.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Architecting security controls for agentic AI – design, implement, and iterate on identity, network, and runtime-level defenses (e.g., sandboxing, policy enforcement) that integrate directly with the Agent Infrastructure stack.
- Building production-grade security tooling – ship code that hardens safety monitoring pipelines across agent executions at scale.
- Collaborating cross-functionally – work daily with Agent Infrastructure, product, research, safety, and security teams to balance security, performance, and usability.
- Influencing strategy & standards – shape the long-term Agent Security roadmap, publish best practices internally and externally, and help define industry standards for securing autonomous AI.

## Requirements

- Strong software-engineering skills in **Python** or at least one systems language (**Go**, **Rust**, **C/C++**), plus a track record of shipping and operating secure, high-reliability services.
- Deep expertise in modern isolation techniques – experience with **container security**, **kernel-level hardening**, and other isolation methods.
- Hands-on **network security** experience – implementing identity-based controls, policy enforcement, and secure large-scale telemetry pipelines.
- Clear, concise communication that bridges engineering, research, and leadership audiences; comfort influencing roadmaps and driving consensus.
- Bias for action & ownership – you thrive in ambiguity, move quickly without sacrificing rigor, and elevate the security bar company-wide from day one.
- **Cloud security** depth on at least one major provider (**Azure**, **AWS**, **GCP**), including identity federation, workload IAM, and infrastructure-as-code best practices.
- Familiarity with **AI/ML security** challenges – experience addressing risks associated with advanced AI systems (nice-to-have but valuable).

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