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Applied AI Engineer, Cyber

OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City

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Frontier labremotesenior$266k–$362k
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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
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