# Offensive Security Engineer, Agent Security

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $278k – $490k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Red Teaming, Purple Teaming, Penetration Testing, Kubernetes, Python, React, Azure, CI/CD, GitHub, Linux, macOS, Prompt Injection, Code Review, Automation, Ai Security
**Posted:** 2025-10-28

> 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.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Continuously hunt for vulnerabilities in the interactions between the applications, infrastructure, and models that power our agentic products.
- Conduct open-scope red and purple team operations, simulating realistic attack scenarios.
- Collaborate proactively with defensive security teams to enhance detection, response, and mitigation capabilities.
- Perform comprehensive penetration testing on our diverse suite of products.
- Leverage advanced automation and OpenAI technologies to optimize your offensive security work.
- Present insightful, actionable findings clearly and compellingly to inspire impactful change.
- Influence security strategy by providing attacker-driven insights into risk and threat modeling.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on red team experience or exceptional accomplishments demonstrating equivalent expertise.
- Deep expertise conducting offensive security operations within modern technology companies.
- Experience designing, developing, or testing assessing the security of AI-powered systems.
- Experience working finding, exploiting and mitigating common vulnerabilities in AI systems like prompt injection, leaking sensitive data, confused deputies, and dynamically generated UI components.
- Exceptional skill in code review, identifying novel and subtle vulnerabilities.
- Proven experience performing offensive security assessments in at least one hyperscaler cloud environment (Azure preferred).
- Demonstrated mastery assessing complex technology stacks, including:
  - Highly customized Kubernetes clusters
  - Container environments
  - CI/CD pipelines
  - GitHub security
  - macOS and Linux operating systems
  - Data science tooling and environments
  - Python-based web services
  - React-based frontend applications
- Strong intuitive understanding of trust boundaries and risk assessment in dynamic contexts.
- Excellent coding skills, capable of writing robust tools and automation for offensive operations.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively through compelling storytelling.
- Proven track record of not just finding vulnerabilities but actively contributing to solutions in complex codebases.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Background or expertise in AI or data science.
- Prior experience working in tech startups or fast-paced technology environments.
- Experience in related disciplines such as Software Engineering (SWE), Detection Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Security Engineering, or IT Infrastructure.

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