Applied AI Engineer, Cyber
OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City
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Frontier labremotesenior$266k–$362k
At a glance
Highlights
- Partner with CISOs and SOC teams to deploy AI for real security outcomes.
- Lead AI workflows for secure code review, threat modeling and incident response.
- Turn customer needs into safe deployment patterns and reusable field assets.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation support
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed security practitioner with 5+ years advising executives and builders who loves prototyping AI workflows and translating ambiguous cyber pain into safe, measurable deployments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of technical consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture, cyber advisory, deployment engineering, professional services, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
- Strong cybersecurity domain expertise across AppSec, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, detection engineering, threat intel, red teaming, or security architecture.
- Able to communicate credibly with CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders, and technical practitioners.
- Hands-on experience building prototypes or production systems with APIs, Python or JavaScript, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD, and security tooling.
- Understand AI workflow design with retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evals, guardrails, telemetry, sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop review.
- Comfortable scoping pilots from ambiguous pain, including success metrics, data, integrations, evaluation criteria, and decision gates.
- Evidence-first security judgment, validating findings and avoiding overstated claims.
- Own problems end-to-end with high throughput across concurrent customer projects.
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets