Job Overview
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Cybersecurity
Date Posted
May 28, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Software Engineer, Cyber Frontier at OpenAI, Inc. in San Francisco, focused on building AI systems and products that help trusted defenders understand and respond to cyber threats while improving the safety and reliability of frontier models in security-sensitive settings.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include defining and executing the technical roadmap for Codex Cyber’s security products, working with trusted defenders and customers to shape product and research priorities, building systems for measuring cyber capabilities and validating safeguards, and collaborating across Safety/Preparedness, Research, Security, Legal, Communications, GTM, and external partners.
- • The Cyber team works across product engineering, model training, evaluations, safeguards, and deployment to make advanced cyber capabilities useful to defenders and responsibly managed, collaborating closely with multiple internal and external teams on OpenAI’s broader cyber initiatives.
- • In this role, you will translate frontier cyber research into launch-ready tools, operational playbooks, and durable infrastructure, gain experience in high-stakes AI security domains, and contribute to the safe deployment of advanced AI systems for real-world cyber defense use cases.
🎯 Requirements
- • Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar languages, with the judgment to build 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 think clearly about cyber capability, misuse risk, access patterns, safeguards, and deployment tradeoffs in high-stakes environments.
- • Comfort navigating ambiguity and thriving in 0 → 1 environments, with excitement to build security products that bring frontier AI capabilities to trusted defenders responsibly.
- • Fluid movement between product launches, customer and defender partnerships, model training, evaluation science, and security research.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI systems that improve safety and reliability of frontier models in security-sensitive settings.
- • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including Safety/Preparedness, Research, Security, Legal, Communications, GTM, and external partners on company-wide cyber priorities.
- • Involvement in shaping model training, access patterns, evaluations, safeguards, and deployment decisions for trusted defender workflows.
- • Contribution to building research and evaluation systems for assessing cyber capabilities and validating safeguards in practice.
- • Engagement with real-world security use cases and trusted defenders to turn feedback into product and research priorities.
Skills & Technologies
About OpenAI, Inc.
OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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