Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - NYC
OpenAI · New York City · San Francisco
Frontier labremotesenior$185k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build systems that give defenders an advantage at global scale.
- Help enterprises patch hundreds of thousands of code repositories.
- Analyze petabytes of logs to detect malicious agents and attacks.
What they offer
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
Ideal candidate
A security-curious engineer who loves building with customers and turning tough defender problems into trusted production systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production software
- Experience protecting production systems via security engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps or product engineering
- Experience building and evaluating AI agents for software engineering workflows
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and practices for code quality, reliability and security
- Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and contribute maintainable production-quality changes
- Ability to communicate technical concepts and trade-offs to engineering teams and senior stakeholders
- remote policy
- Hybrid - 3 days in office per week
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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