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About the Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.  

The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.  

About the Role

As a Security Engineer, you will join our OpenAI engineers and researchers in building, operating and securing transformational AI technologies. This role will focus on all aspects of Detection & Response, including infrastructure and operations, and will also contribute to the Security team as a strong generalist. In this role, you will:

• Drive projects in all major security verticals including: AppSec, InfraSec, OffSec and Detection and Response
• Innovate to solve novel security problems 
• Collaborate on cutting-edge AI research, and use AI to improve OpenAI’s Security posture 

You’ll make an impact at OpenAI by:

• Innovating on Detection and Response infrastructure 
• Build tools for managing the lifecycle of detection rules
• Develop, measure, and tune detection rules to ensure effective and sustainable operations.
• Automate manual response processes 

• Ensuring visibility and control of OpenAI’s endpoint fleet (macOS, Windows)
• Driving improvements across identity access and management (IAM), device management, productivity software, and our use of public cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure).

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• Experience in Security or a Security-adjacent field. We are open to junior, mid-level and senior candidates as we are recruiting multiple Security Engineers to join the team.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or cloud infrastructure platforms
• Knowledge of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Proficiency with a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar).
• Ability to empathize and collaborate with colleagues, independently manage and run projects, and prioritize efforts for risk reduction.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 
 
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

The annual salary range for this role is $200,000 – $370,000. Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Mental health and wellness support
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching
• Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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About the Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.  

The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.   

About the Role

As an Offensive Security Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the development and execution of offensive security tactics to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in our systems with the goal of helping OpenAI improve its cyber defense. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and offensive security research, and will be a resolute team player. In this role, you will:

• Drive high leverage offensive security engagements and defensive improvements (in equal parts)
• Innovate to develop novel tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Collaborate on cutting-edge AI research, and use AI to improve OpenAI’s Security posture

You’ll make an impact at OpenAI by:

• Scoping and leading offensive security engagements against OpenAI’s services and infrastructure.
• Identifying vulnerabilities impacting OpenAI’s systems, communicating your findings, and contributing to solutions.
• Empowering the blue team by enabling measurement and validation of OpenAI’s defensive capabilities.
• Building enduring and high-trust partnerships with your colleagues across the organization.
• Thinking like an attacker and building like a defender.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• A track record of providing adversarial simulation that leads to impactful security growth.
• A strong background in penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and offensive security research
• Knowledge of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Excellent communication skills, and are concise and persuasive.
• Experience with public cloud providers (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) and a desire to become an expert at Azure infrastructure.
• Experience with Kubernetes infrastructure (container security, orchestration security, authentication/authorization, etc).
• Proficiency in programming (Python, Golang, or similar)
• Ability to empathize and collaborate with colleagues, independently manage and run projects, and prioritize efforts for risk reduction.

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

The annual salary range for this role is $200,000 – $370,000. Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Mental health and wellness support
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching
• Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

OpenAI US Applicant Privacy Policy

About the Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.  

The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.   

About the Role

As a Security Engineering Manager, you will lead OpenAI engineers and researchers in building transformational and secure AI technologies. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in at least one security engineering discipline and prior experience in security leadership. In this role, you will:

• Drive high leverage initiatives in infrastructure and application security
• Innovate to develop novel security architecture
• Collaborate on cutting-edge AI research, and use AI to improve OpenAI’s Security posture

You’ll make an impact at OpenAI by:

• Managing a team of world-class security engineers, providing hands-on technical leadership to mentor and grow their careers.
• Driving security architecture improvements across OpenAI’s research and production environments.
• Empowering OpenAI's AI researchers and developers to do their best work securely.
• Building enduring and high-trust partnerships with your colleagues across the organization.
• Thinking like an attacker and building like a defender.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• A track record of delivering transformational security improvements via leadership of productive engineering teams.
• Experience in security leadership, including prior management experience.
• Excellent communication skills, and are concise and persuasive.
• Experience with public cloud providers (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) and a desire to become an expert at protecting Azure infrastructure.
• Experience securing Kubernetes infrastructure (container security, orchestration security, authentication/authorization, etc).
• Proficiency with deployment tooling (Terraform, Buildkite, etc.) and security automation.
• Proficiency in programming (Python, Golang, or similar)
• Knowledge of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Ability to empathize and collaborate with colleagues, independently manage and run projects, and prioritize efforts for risk reduction.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 
 
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

The annual salary range for this role is $300,000 – $500,000. Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Mental health and wellness support
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching
• Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

OpenAI US Applicant Privacy Policy